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Stuff with the Perl Foundation. A couple of patches in the Perl core. A few CPAN modules. That about sums it up.

Saturday June 28, 2008

11:01 AM

[ #36803 ]

How the hell does Twitter make money? I'm completely stumped. I assumed it was plastered with ads, so I turned off adblock.

Nope. No ads. What the hell?

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does it need to? (Score:1)

by rjbs (4671)

I mean, it seems to be housed on a 486SX on dial-up. How much does it need to make?
Somebody is making money off of pay clients, though. WTF.

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not yet (Score:1)

by link (3402)

Amazon didn't make money for the first 7 years so I'm sure twitter has plenty of time to work something out.
From the phone companies (Score:1)

by mauzo (8185)

In the US, AIUI, the recipient of an SMS pays for the privilege. This means that when a company gets to the point of sending as many messages as Twitter does, the phone company starts paying them rather than the other way 'round.
It's still in the investment phase (Score:2)

by brian_d_foy (44)

They don't how they'll make money either. Their investors, Union Square Partners say The question everyone asks is "What is the business model?" To be completely and totally honest, we don't yet know. [unionsquareventures.com]
Why do they need to be making money (Score:1)

by Alias (5735)

Don't be under the illusion that just because something LOOKS successful, it's actually profitable :)
This is just as true with people as it is with companies.