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Re:What is Twitter's source of income?? by acgourley on Sunday May 20, 2007 @11:10PM (#23520)
If you generate enough SMS messages through an official SMS portal, they begin to start paying YOU by the message, because they are making so much in SMS charges.
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Re:What is Twitter's source of income?? by nickb on Monday May 21, 2007 @01:32PM (#23653)
What's the source of your statement? I've talked to few cell companies and they never offered anything even remotely as attractive. Best we could do is get a discount. You're talking about revenue sharing. I've never seen anyone extract that out of them.
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Re:What is Twitter's source of income?? by tienshiao on Monday May 21, 2007 @04:37PM (#23704)
TV shows do it all the time. You don't think they encourage people to vote multiple times just for the hell of it, do you?
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Re:What is Twitter's source of income?? by Tichy on Monday May 21, 2007 @04:53AM (#23565)
Interesting, but does it still work if you are sending far more messages than you are receiving? I haven't used Twitter, but I imagine that for every SMS they receive they have to send out dozens of update SMS (to all "friends").
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