Comments on: My Twitter Tipping Point

By: paramendra

paramendra — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:39:12 +0000

Sure.

By: dherman76

dherman76 — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 02:23:01 +0000

Thanks for stopping by!

By: paramendra

paramendra — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:05:44 +0000

Came across this post at AVC.com.

By: dherman76

dherman76 — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:52:04 +0000

Laura, thanks so much for stopping by. Hope to see you around here
and I'll be sure to check out your venture

By: laurapistachiofitton

laurapistachiofitton — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:07:47 +0000

Hello Darren (got here via the comments on Fred's post) & congrats on the "nickel dropping" moment. I remember mine well, and have been lucky enough to be somewhere around quite a few of these over the past few years what with my very strange journey, speaking, blogging, writing Twitter for Dummies (you're not one. nobody is. it's a "dumb" app) and founding Pistachio Consulting & now oneforty.

Unsurprisingly, we're also quite bullish on the ecosystem and built www.oneforty.com to give innovators visibility, tools, a distribution channel and any kind of support we can to make their ideas into solid businesses.

Good luck with Tomzy - looking forward to its launch.

Warmly,
Laura

By: Computer Repairs

Computer Repairs — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:43:09 +0000

Darren,

I would say that I am a pretty casual tweeter. I got involved in it after being quite reluctant, when a friend convinced me of the many different platforms that it uses. I am just starting to get into the swing of things in seeing its capabilities. I am searching to find out more and how to use it, so I appreciate your post and the other ones I'm reading that keep encouraging me that it is useful to learn more. Thanks for the post!

By: dherman76

dherman76 — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:37:31 +0000

It's all how you package the content

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Darren Herman / 914 912-7992

By: Sarah Tavel

Sarah Tavel — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:14:10 +0000

While that's true that a bunch of incremental revenue streams start to add up significantly, it's rare that a company not have one dominant revenue stream. I suppose some form of in stream advertising could be just that, but I think it's going to take an out of the box idea.

Yes, a lot of this world is UGC, but so are IMs, and try monetizing those!

By: dherman76

dherman76 — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:13:30 +0000

a bunch of incremental revenue streams start to add up significantly, no?

I like your comment re: Google's equivalent of tweeting is "searching" -> hadn't heard it phrased that way.

Isn't this whole world user generated content? It's how we package it up and "position/sell" it that creates different ways of "status"

By: Sarah Tavel

Sarah Tavel — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:08:55 +0000

Darren – Great post (and sorry for being late getting to it!). As I read your post, it sounds like you are bullish on Twitter as a platform, but not necessarily a business (you don't indicate one way or the other).

I feel the same way. I flip flop on whether I'm bullish or not on Twitter's potential as a $-making business (the VC in me . I'm sure the employees of Twitter are a lot smarter than I am and have some genius plan to make tons of mulah, but right now it just feels like Twitter is the last stop on the $ value chain. This great ecosystem you speak of is standing on Twitter's shoulders and it feels like they are going to make money before Twitter ever does. Even if Twitter starts integrating ads a-la Ad.ly into your Twitter stream, it still feels like incremental revenue.

Google's platform was and is so freaking valuable because Google's equivalent of “tweeting” is “searching” aka one of the simplest and most effective moneymakers out there.

Twitter won't ever be a Google, but can it ever reach the revenue potential of a Facebook? I'm skeptical.

So what is it then besides just a stream of user generated content?