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By: Twitter – Empty table | Radio Free Mobile

Twitter – Empty table | Radio Free Mobile — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 05:48:50 +0000

[…] the problem of being limited to such a narrow slice of Digital Life (see here) is not going to be a problem before it hits around $2bn in annual revenues. (around […]

By: tatilsever

tatilsever — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 09:15:17 +0000

Right now, yes, but Twitter has been putting out feelers about inline “media” in the streams. If so, Twitter could become as attractive to post pictures and links as Facebook.

In any case, I am more curious about Twitter’s profitability. It’s got a lot of revenue, but forecasting growing losses. At this stage, I’d think economies of scale would kick in. Hopefully, it will not turn in to a GroupOn.

By: windsorr

windsorr — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 09:06:38 +0000

That is true but the scope of Facebook is MUCH greater. Looking at the data that Facebook holds on its users it should be able to learn much more than Twitter can. This will be the case even if it is a little less specific. Plus users spend 5x more time using Facebook than they do twitter so there is a greater opportunity for Facebook to target them with something. Hence the addressable market for Facebook is likely to much greater than it is for Twitter all other things being equal.

By: tatilsever

tatilsever — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 09:32:43 +0000

Facebook may be trying to deduce what you are interested in based on who you know, but Twitter knows what you are interested in based on who you follow. The distinction is not perfect, as Facebook knows some of the links you click on when one of your “friends” post something as well. However, many “friends” on Facebook are due to historical accidents, such as your relatives or childhood friends with whom you may not have many common interests any more, other than the emotional attachment to each other. Sure, they may post something interesting every now and then, but that is a relatively limited set of data for Facebook to get to know you. People on Twitter tend to be more of the active actual friends or people you don’t know in real life, but whose chatter you *chose* to follow due to an actual current interest.