Biz Stone says Twitter revenue will be in 2010, but promises advertising will be “non traditional.” Hmm. What does that mean? Non traditional is so, well, broad, right?
Does Biz mean that there won’t be a string of ads floating in the right or left nav bars of our Twitter pages? I hope it doesn’t ever come to that.
Here’s how I think it might go. Twitter would be nuts to continue allowing businesses to use their services for free. WIth all the apps around to do the searching for you, like tweepsearch and Refollow, any business can hire a “Twintern,” load ‘em up with caffeine and for little money market the heck out of their brand.
The way I see it, Twitter will soon start charging businesses big bucks for access to their tweople. It is simply not in the business of doing favors for other businesses.
Basically, all that money that has migrated away from newspapers and television (traditional media) over the past few years will be flowing to Twitter and other social media sites, like Facebook.
Why else would R. Rowe Price and Insight Ventures throw another $100 million at Twitter in September? They know that Twitter will soon enough manifest into the cash cow of their dreams.
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