Unless you’ve been living under the proverbial rock for the past year or so, you’ve probably realized that Twitter has been one of the biggest influences on web culture in years. It’s changed the way we communicate, how we think scaling applications, and launched countless startups based on it’s api.
Now, there have been countless blog posts, articles, and essays on this subject, so I’m obviously not breaking any ground here. But, I thought it would be interesting to put my own two cents into the mix and propose a revenue model of my own.
Build Now, Pay Later
One thing Twitter hasn’t been able to nail down (at least publicly) is a revenue model. They’re the poster-child of the web 2.0 “build now, monetize later” strategy so typical of startups in the past few years. But, in today’s economy, this simply won’t fly.
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