del.icio.us and twitter
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- its_only_me
How do these sites make money?
They seem relativly old sites now. Surley they must be making some sort of doe to keep the servers from melting.
Or is there just some crazy old rich guy pumping pointless money into them and wishing for light at the end of the tunnel?
- kalkal0
Don't they have ads? I wouldn't know, I use an adblocker
- benfal990
no ads on both. they have a value but they dont make money.... i dont know.
- its_only_me0
I recon they just hope and prey.
wikipedia's been on it last legs for years because they refuse to advertise.
- benfal990
i think they can borrow money form a bank because of their value.
- benfal990
imagine you go to a bank and you said "Iam the owner of the website Twitter and it has a value of 15 millions dollars, can I borrow 250,000$ please?"
- "...and its been running for 5 years and never made a penny" heheits_only_me
- its_only_me0
What process would they go through to value it?
Im guessing user numbers is the only thing to go on right?Niether have a business model to ever make a profit.
- section_0140
Sorry if I offend anyone, but twitter seems kind of ...well...ridiculous. I mean, why would you want to type everything you do into some web site? More importantly, why the shit would anyone want to fucking read it? "Went to grocery store, read a magazine, took a shit" Who gives a fuck? If someone wants to know something about someone, how about, I don't know, calling them or emailing. Plus, you can never lie...or you can lie really well. "See baby, it said I was at the library on my twitter". Still, it's stupid.
- Why? Because you don't have to take a piss to read this particular toilet wall.moth
- sorry, you obviously love it.section_014
- No, I hate it. People are getting dumber and have short attention spans.moth
- welcome to 2009. We all have a virtual self now.benfal99
- like on QBN. its a virtual life.benfal99
- rafalski0
Delicious is Yahoo. Twitter is going to be acquired sooner or later by people who will monetize it.
Google didn't seem to have a business model for years, they now make billions on ads.
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- moth0
"What process would they go through to value it?"
"Niether have a business model to ever make a profit."Are you kidding?
Probably millions of users telling you what they bookmark, when they visit it, where they visit it, who else is visiting it where you visit it and when you visit it........... That stuff is fucking gold dust in the right hands.- trends... events... tv shows... news....moth
- It's worth $$$$$$$.moth
- and then the bubble begins.its_only_me
- bekannt0
yeah sounds easy , get the thing up and runing, then come the monetizers to give you money for your web thing
- kelpie0
they've been looking at monetizing twitter for teh last year or two.
Don;t use twitter myself, but I know for a fact that it is 99% of teh time the first source for any breaking news due to the form of it. The plane that went down in teh hudson for example; first mention and pics on twitter. People aren't really getting it if they think that the usefulness of it is to tell people you are off to buy milk.
How ideas and concepts spread is massively important these days and lots of these net based communication tools are making this easier to happen. A lot of the 'value' of something like twitter, or facebook, doesn't come from money they can put in people's hands directly, but from how they can help carry ideas and trends through their user base, on behalf of other bodies.
- kelpie0
of course its far cooler just to gas about how pointless it is, and how cool you are for still using 2 tin cans on a piece of string, like "before all this fucking internet and mobile shite, back when people had real lifes, ra ra ra"
- benfal990
From http://www.dnscoop.com/ :
Delicious estimated value: $29,547,400
Twitter estimated value: $222,733,600
- kelpie0
information is power!
- TheBIueOne0
I use both. I enjoy. I'd pay for either one. You know a reasonable amount.
- except that your use of it is fundamental to its value anyway, and you pay for it by taking partkelpie
- moth0
Kelpie's on the money. Imagine a site like CNN or the BBC with content generated by 'twitters'. No need to verify anything except by numbers of people reporting the same thing. You no longer need reporters. You've got more people on the ground with cameras, video cameras and internet connections than any major network.
- benfal990
From http://www.dnscoop.com/ :
facebook estimated value : $1,510,000,000
QBN estimated value : $70,928
google estimated value : $1,480,000,000
my website estimated value : $60- My estimated value: $248.63TheBIueOne
- I meant my personal value according to my bank account...TheBIueOne
- ohbenfal99
- SO I could buy benfals website like three times over. I am a rich man. Comparitively.TheBIueOne