Both Twitter and Facebook are among the most popular web services in the USA, getting a lot of media attention, PR and are sometimes called “fast growing”. What does it mean? Let’s check both of them to find out how they rate against each other.
Even though both services grow very fast - as you probably [...]
All right, so after describing Magpie service in couple of posts here and recently stumbling upon first testimonials of happy Magpie users to receive a payout (I hope it is not staged) I decided to give it a try. So I have signed up for the service. After all, I need to pay for [...]
For a while now the world has been talking about ways to make money on Twitter. When reading the news today for a second I thought the solution has been found by a third party provider. Although the money is virtual, I think the idea is worth presenting here in ‘monetinzing Twitter’ section. Pretweetting.com combines [...]
When reading the news today – IT news that is – it struck me that Twitter encountered two major embarrassments recently. I wonder actually how it is possible that a site everybody is talking about made mistakes like that. Unless it is not real. Unless someone tries to make a lot of black PR work [...]
Some of venture capitalists and well know investors, including Fred Wilson, argue that the Twitter value is related to passed links. He predicts that at the current growth rate soon Twitter or Facebook will overtake Google as a traffic source. For many sites Twitter is becoming usually the second source of traffic, right after Google. [...]
It seems that we have no choice but to get used to the fact, that in near future many tweets will be sponsored. More and more companies are thinking about promoting their brands and seeking firms like Magpie or Izea who offer advertising services on Twitter. No wonder: not too many of us are watching [...]
Let’s take a look at how much a Twitter account user could be making if he decided to go with a Magpie advertising service. I was able to find out, that Jeremiah Owyang who did a Magpie test on his Twitter account and analyzed users reactions, claims that taking into account the number of his [...]
I did some research on Magpie service, offering each Twitter user to publish sponsored twits in his conversations. The result is somewhat troubling. Some internet users might definitely say ‘no’ to the service and forget about it for good. Others will sign-up no matter what, despite being aware that plenty of Twitter users are really [...]
Twitter is still debating on how the company could make money. They are not keen on introducing ads, but there are some companies on a market already that allow users to make money using Twitter. The ideas are quite different and it seems to be quite a lot of them, from real-estate offers on Twitter [...]
Can anyone explain to me how Twitter wants to make money? Do they have a business model? Right now Twitter mania is growing like crazy, the site is inaccessible from time to time and the number of users is just skyrocketing. And all this hosting and traffic bandwidth cost money. I think that some of [...]
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