Comments on: Two moves that tell you everything you need to know about Twitter’s future

By: Carpet Thankr

Carpet Thankr — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:12:22 +0000

Never.

By: Sean Fleming

Sean Fleming — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:34:13 +0000

There are so many ways of looking at this I almost feel dizzy.

There’s an adage that’s something like “if you’re not the one doing the selling, then you’re the one that’s being sold.” I’m sure I got that wrong, but the point is a valid one. There’s no direct commercial transaction between twitter and the user, so where do you think the money will come from? It will come from trading assets. Twitter’s only asset is the insight it has on its users.

It will do what any business will do to protect its assets and make money from them. Sometimes the user will feel the balance is all wrong. But as long as the service is still there, and free, all you’ll see are moans and grumbles. Like it or not, millions of people hate Facebook. But they still use it.

If the author’s assertions about twitter’s course of direction are correct, it will end up becoming something very different from where it started out. That’s probably what will happen, regardless of it becoming some sort of

By: Joe Brewster

Joe Brewster — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:22:08 +0000

Interesting post.

By: jbishop90

jbishop90 — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:06:12 +0000

So how long till the open-source model takes over social media?

By: Angela

Angela — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:53:34 +0000

Seems to me Twitter has become a powerful communication tool and NBC wants to strip it down to Justin Bieber level.

By: gregorylent

gregorylent — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 14:38:39 +0000

case study of the effect of the marketing mindset on a magic product

pretty sad

By: Andrewy

Andrewy — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 22:43:14 +0000

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By: Kris Tuttle

Kris Tuttle — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:26:32 +0000

Twitter is a free service so I guess you get what you pay for! I am appalled at what has happened to the Olympics because it seems like something we are supposed to own, not have to pay to watch. And with NBC you can’t even do that for live coverage! Crazy!

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:24:21 +0000

It may be capitalism but if a popular store starts plastering ads everywhere or deletes half the merchandise, people may find somewhere else to shop.

By: Jojomogir

Jojomogir — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:00:20 +0000

It seems pretty clear to me. Twitter’s follower graph data has value to sites like Tumblr and Instagram. Twitter needs to start making money, so it will begin to charge those sites for access to that data. It’s called capitalism. Get used to it.