Comments on: Another Reason to be Skeptical of "Analysts"

By: content writing service

content writing service — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:26:00 +0000

Twitter
and Facebook are being used increasingly today by internet marketers! And the
result of it has been of humongous importance to the marketing field. So this
completely negates these views of the analysts!

By: Tunde

Tunde — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:03:45 +0000

Yes, there is gold in this database of intentions and desires.
Yes, there is capital in social capital.
Yes, there is a market for attention.

How will it be mined?

I suspect the miners know but are not yet ready to show you the road map to their goldmine.

@om malik should follow up on the request he made of @fred wilson

By: EarRings

EarRings — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:15:02 +0000

That is business for you, there are risks to be taken, they just don’t understand this concept.

By: carole

carole — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:25:32 +0000

John — way to go, dead on right. Your theory often applies to corporate america too. With everyone so focused on getting through next week’s sales rewsults, there lacks a burning need to truly innovate. Ther is less need to think three steps ahead, but rather, make it through the quarter.

By: iksir mucizesi

iksir mucizesi — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:45:14 +0000

With Twitter, people are voluntarily broadcasting what they’re thinking and what they want. If that’s not valuable, I don’t know what is.Yeah.

By: John Doyle

John Doyle — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:31:59 +0000

John,

I think you are wrong on this one. Twitter is glorified text messaging and will go the way of roller-blades, breakdancing and parachute pants. There will be a following, but the public interest will wane in a few years.

Yes, I believe Twitter is a fad. That does not mean it is not neat-o, nor does that mean I am not a fan of social media. I'm a big believer in the space.

I would love to be proven wrong. I think those guys have a great gimmick and should sell as fast as humanly possible.

Best,

John
Peachtree Media Advisors, Inc.

By: Tom Crowl

Tom Crowl — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:26:41 +0000

This reflects a fundamental difficulty with Internet monetization in general... Twitter is a wonderful concept and like many similar attractive functions, it's actually a fairly simple concept.

As such, it's easily duplicated with some variation (e.g. amplify mentioned above).

This is to some extent counter-balanced by a natural tendency for a stable congregation to form around a particular (or simply first) iteration of such a concept.

Which, in turn is often pulled down when it tries to monetize by anything other than advertising... the value of which is directly tied to usage statistics...

It's like trying to monetize snowballs in Switzerland...

As such, while advertising opportunities are great and should never be neglected...

Let's all kneel down and praise the models that don't completely depend on advertising in one form or another!

Speaking of which... that's why my humble startup, while expecting great opportunity from advertising... won't depend on it!

Of course, a profit making model ultimately owned by the User base is fairly atypical and results from its unique ability to straddle the profit and non-profit worlds.

By the way, would have been an interesting (and more useful to both the Donor and P&G) opportunity for that T-Shirt promotion mentioned a few posts ago which I'd be happy to lay out for any interested.

Chagora & Civilization Systems

By: Dale Larson

Dale Larson — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:48:44 +0000

Om:

Here you go! Tony brought back the goods from Twitter this afternoon:

http://twitter.com/zappos/status/1351016995

By: David Adewumi

David Adewumi — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:59:26 +0000

Spectator vs."The Man in the Arena."

I've written about start-ups, started my own, and working for a start-up.

It's ORDERS of magnitude easier to write about a start-up than it is to start one and successfully or otherwise turn it into a true business.

"there ain't no statues erected for a skeptic"

By: John Furrier

John Furrier — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:19:37 +0000

Cheer Cheer on this post. Right on the money John. Best line of the post..

"Utterly ridiculous on so many fronts it's hard for me to summon the energy to refute it."

Twitter has a big opportunity in front of them and it's the real deal. I'll be posting something on SiliconAngle.com shortly but their message on their web page echos my thoughts months ago when the notion that no business model existed. They have one for sure and it's looking good.