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Re:Twitter To Buy TweetDeck For $40 Million – $50 Million by pclark on Monday May 02, 2011 @05:45PM (#2507992)
TweetDeck had ~10% of Twitters user base as users, and they sold for a mere $50M. This should speak volumes about "not being someones bitch."
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Re:Twitter To Buy TweetDeck For $40 Million – $50 Million by jcampbell1 on Monday May 02, 2011 @05:58PM (#2508054)
...or not being in a market where no one knows how to make money. The best exits are for the companies that don't need to.
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Re:Twitter To Buy TweetDeck For $40 Million – $50 Million by pclark on Monday May 02, 2011 @06:00PM (#2508061)
TweetDeck could make barrels of money if Twitter allowed them to run adverts. (of some capacity)
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Re:Twitter To Buy TweetDeck For $40 Million – $50 Million by brandnewlow on Monday May 02, 2011 @06:06PM (#2508093)
Tweetdeck could run adverts just fine, Twitter just didn't want them running them in a sketchy in-stream manner, which I think is fair since their whole app just sits on top of Twitter.
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Re:Twitter To Buy TweetDeck For $40 Million – $50 Million by truthtechnician on Monday May 02, 2011 @08:05PM (#2508436)
And running adverts wouldn't destroy a huge portion of the userbase?
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