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Bob Caswell: Is This Twitter Making Money? I’m Not So Sure.

  • Rob · 6 months ago
    Couldn't agree with you more - just posted a blog post to our Twitter blog saying pretty much the same thing. Information wants to be free - and it's about time that people realized that.

    These days, any way that a dollar sign can be attached to Twitter is hailed as "the answer to Twitter's monetization problem." But I'm not entirely certain that there IS a problem. Twitter is a technology - a technology which could be folded into a larger-context social network to flesh out functionality. While that might not add value directly, it'll dramatically increase user engagement, and that's what will keep it going - the value that's added tangentially.

    Nice post! Glad to see I'm not the only one bowing down to the Cult of Arrington.
  • Bob Caswell · 6 months ago
    Hi Rob, just checked out your post and didn't even think about one aspect which seems now like such an obvious hole in this whole idea:

    "Will Super Chirp subscribers have to sign some kind of non-disclosure agreement agreeing not to reproduce the content of monetized Tweets in whole or in part?"

    Very good point!