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3 commentsThursday, May 28, 2009

Twitter Talks Revenue & Real-Time Search

Creating Form to Give Twitter Money

At the All Things Digital Conference, otherwise known as D7, Twitter Co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone talked about possibilities for making money in the future, but once again, did not want to give too many details away.

Williams said the company is working on a form for people to fill out to give them money, so evidently something is in motion. TheStreet.com reports:

Williams and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone mentioned possible revenue-generators, including a service that would authenticate the source of information. For example, Dunkin' Donuts could pay to make sure that impostors don't send messages under its name.

Still, after nearly one hour of questions from journalists Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher and from the audience, the co-founders gave no clear picture of Twitter's business model. Stone demurred when asked what would be the company's key revenue driver in two years.


Williams added that he isn't entirely opposed to banner ads, but said it's probably the least interesting thing the company could do. ZDNet has some footage from the All Things Digital Conference here.

For More Straight from the Mouth of a Twitter Co-founder...

Danny Sullivan interviewed Biz Stone last week. They talked mostly about the real-time search aspect of Twitter. Danny offers a full article here as well as the following three clips of Stone talking:


 

 

There's no question that real-time search has become one of the hottest topics in the industry. Some consider it to be merely a buzzword, while other see it as the future of search. Google Co-founder Larry Page has even acknowledged that Google needs to do it.

About the author:
Chris Crum has been a part of the WebProNews team and the iEntry Network of B2B Publications since 2003. Twitter: @CCrum237

Twitter Creators Are Innovators

I really like Twitter because it's so easy to use and do understand the need for it to start making money. I just hope that whatever they do it's low key, affordable and doesn't drive a lot of people away.

However since the creators of Twitter were innovative in it's design and lead the way for real-time search I'm confident they'll devise a way to make it profitable without hurting it.

Well thats the way most

Well thats the way most sites go, they are free until the users build them up and they become popular, then the owners sel the site or monetize them.

Even though i have over 2,000 followers I still don't get it

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