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Re:Twitter Unveils Plans to Draw Money From Ads by _delirium on Tuesday April 13, 2010 @01:52AM (#1261253)
Especially since they're already profitable...
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Re:Twitter Unveils Plans to Draw Money From Ads by smanek on Tuesday April 13, 2010 @03:00AM (#1261316)
Is that sarcasm?

To the best of my knowledge, they don't even have any significant revenue (besides bigger and bigger VC rounds ;-)) - let alone having hit profitability.

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Re:Twitter Unveils Plans to Draw Money From Ads by _delirium on Tuesday April 13, 2010 @03:04AM (#1261319)
They got about $25m from Google and Microsoft in return for real-time data feeds, which is by itself enough to make them profitable: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2009/tc200...
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Re:Twitter Unveils Plans to Draw Money From Ads by pierrefar on Tuesday April 13, 2010 @03:12AM (#1261324)
They were profitable in 2009 because of the search engine deals. But these were one-offs so they can't be the whole story.
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