Twitter reports $645m loss for 2013

Re:Twitter reports $645m loss for 2013 by alphakappa on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @10:29PM (#7188552)

But they are also an Internet company where the ad signups are done online, so it's not immediately obvious why they would have all those salespeople. (Not saying that they don't need a large number of salespeople, but that it isn't an immediately obvious need)

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Re:Twitter reports $645m loss for 2013 by Touche on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @10:43PM (#7188608)

Sales isn't about doing the paperwork of getting you signed up for a service. Sales is about convincing you to buy the service. Twitter doesn't have an automated system to convince companies to spend millions buying ads, they have salespeople, like every other sales company.

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Re:Twitter reports $645m loss for 2013 by hoka on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @10:38PM (#7188590)

Yes most signups are done online via a self-serve system; however, there is a lot of money to be made if you can produce custom deals, content, and ad placement with bigger partners.

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Re:Twitter reports $645m loss for 2013 by judk on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @11:19PM (#7188702)

Guess how many salespeople Google has.

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Re:Twitter reports $645m loss for 2013 by ggreenbe on Thursday February 06, 2014 @12:03AM (#7188822)

Any chance you know? Would be interested to know their numbers vs twitter.

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Re:Twitter reports $645m loss for 2013 by dangrossman on Thursday February 06, 2014 @12:07AM (#7188832)

"Several thousand" according to WSJ.

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Re:Twitter reports $645m loss for 2013 by extesy on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @10:34PM (#7188577)

They are not selling accounts. They are selling advertising opportunities to businesses.

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