Comments on: Is This Twitter Making Money? I’m Not So Sure.

By: Bob Caswell

Bob Caswell — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:17:49 +0000

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!

By: Bob Caswell

Bob Caswell — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:17:49 +0000

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:54:21 +0000

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.

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Posts about Michael Arrington as of June 8, 2009 » The Daily Parr — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:39:43 +0000

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