How Twitter Can Avoid Becoming the Next AOL

Re:How Twitter Can Avoid Becoming the Next AOL by _Zach on Saturday June 07, 2014 @02:43AM (#7861503)

AOL's Q4 2013 revenue was $656 million. True, they aren't part of a hipster tech elite, but with money like that who fucking cares ?

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Re:How Twitter Can Avoid Becoming the Next AOL by slashink on Saturday June 07, 2014 @03:37AM (#7861561)

Sometimes I forget that AOL seems to be doing fine, the question is though How? Is it by social inertia?

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Re:How Twitter Can Avoid Becoming the Next AOL by Alupis on Saturday June 07, 2014 @03:51AM (#7861577)

They appear to be doing more than fine:

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:AOL

Although, should note... a quarter's revenue of $656 million is a far cry from major tech companies, and that is revenue, not profit.

They own several media companies, including Engadget. Likely where they make majority of their revenue now days.

(that and the old people who still think they must pay AOL $10 a month for their email and the AOL web browser... yes, it's still a thing... and people do still pay for it... sigh)

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Re:How Twitter Can Avoid Becoming the Next AOL by blumkvist on Saturday June 07, 2014 @04:51AM (#7861654)

Engaged is barely profitable and even the revenue is not that big. Majority of their money (profit and revenue) comes from subscriptions. Some from ads on aol.com other properties (but AOLtech is pretty weak)

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