Comments on: You’re a Media Company Now, Twitter — Good Luck

By: Twitter Used By 8 Percent of American Internet Users: Tech News «

Twitter Used By 8 Percent of American Internet Users: Tech News « — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:13:04 +0000

[...] we’ve noted before, Twitter is a news platform and a budding media company. It doesn’t have the reach of a Facebook because they serve different purposes, with Twitter [...]

By: Facebook Dominated the Social Media Pack in Q3: Tech News «

Facebook Dominated the Social Media Pack in Q3: Tech News « — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:43:11 +0000

[...] the pack. In fact, eMarketer says Facebook is collecting half of all ad dollars in social media. Twitter and others, meanwhile, are scrambling to catch [...]

By: What is With Twitter? Google, this is Where You Should Step Up « SmoothSpan Blog

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:46:07 +0000

[...] but its technology is straightforward. We can argue about whether it even is Social Media (it isn’t), but that’s not really important. Put your Facebook plans on hold for a time. Build a [...]

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:16:27 +0000

Thanks for the comment, David. It will be interesting to see if Twitter can build the kind of business you are describing.

By: This Week in Review: J-schools as R&D labs, a big news consumption shift, and what becomes of RSS » Nieman Journalism Lab

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:03:17 +0000

[...] Mathew Ingram and venture capitalist David Pakman agreed, with Pakman noting that while Google, Facebook and [...]

By: David Perdew

David Perdew — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:32:53 +0000

Fritz does bring up a good point, that Twitter best serves members with an already established following through traditional media. Also, if Twitter is subscribing to the basic notion that content is king, then offering users a way to enrich those individual tweets with interesting multimedia files would seem logical.

Unfortunately, Twitter is now trapped into serving its investors with an active ROI model, something they might not have thought about before today. It wouldn’t surprise me to see a partnership deal in the coming months to help solve that problem, but I don’t see it improving the user experience much in the process.

By: fritz

fritz — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:58:16 +0000

If they charge Justin Bieber 1$ per month for every follower he has then twitter really does not have to worry about making money from their service Justin Bieber will himself account to 5.24 million in revenue per month

the only people benefiting a lot from twitter are celebs as this is the best realtime platform they have to feed their hungry fans with tidbits about their lives

By: Google Wants Your Facebook Friends. Can It Leverage Twitter Instead? by @ScepticGeek

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:40:40 +0000

[...] is increasingly becoming a media company and a pervasive news platform, as Mathew Ingram writes at GigaOm. Why not a Twitter-integrated Google News? A personalized Google News based on users’ [...]

By: Twitter Misses The Metadata Boat « Mike Cane's xBlog

Twitter Misses The Metadata Boat « Mike Cane's xBlog — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:12:23 +0000

[...] Twitter is indeed moving towards becoming a media company, it better get its metadata act in order — because metadata rules [...]

By: dpakman

dpakman — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:58:22 +0000

Nice piece, and thanks for the shoutout, Mathew. I’d like to point out that traditional notions of media are hard to monetize, as Chris Dixon suggests, but some of the emerging newer ones aren’t as hard. When the cost of content approaches zero, as it is for Twitter and FB, and the scale of engaged users is high, big media businesses can be built. That is what we have here. Companies like HuffPo, Demand Media and About.com all found ways to get both scale and very low cost of content and have built nice media businesses on top.