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Re:Twitter is Growing Like Crazy: Up 422% in 12 Months by aneesh on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @02:00PM (#307292)
Where "lots of options" means advertising in different forms.

Sure they can make some money from subscriptions, but Twitter is not a $50/month or even $50/year service in my opinion.

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Re:Twitter is Growing Like Crazy: Up 422% in 12 Months by wyclif on Thursday September 18, 2008 @02:34AM (#307958)
In order for Twitter to start a subscription model, they'd need international SMS (something they seem to have given up on, as third parties now provide paid SMS bundling) AND IM.

Today, I opened my T-Mo statement, and there was a Twitter ad inside. Still no IM and SMS, though. No matter how big their user base gets, that looks like a show stopper to me.

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Re:Twitter is Growing Like Crazy: Up 422% in 12 Months by josefresco on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @02:35PM (#307350)
It is to some people, the 'Internet celebrity' (Calacanis etc.) crowd would gladly throw thousands/year at Twitter as it allows them to grow their image/social circle.
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Re:Twitter is Growing Like Crazy: Up 422% in 12 Months by mattmaroon on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @05:20PM (#307554)
Those people are far too few to become a reliable source of revenue for Twitter.
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