> The long case on Twitter is that the fundamentals are good.
I'm not sure I agree with that statement. They've got a lot of users, many of which love the service, but as a business the fundamentals are far from sound. I'm yet to be convinced that paid advertising is a model that will work on Twitter, and I can't really see any other model beyond persuading people to pay to hide the adverts (which destroys their advertiser base).
Twitter started as a hobby side project to communicate between a few friends, not a business, and you can see that in everything they do.
I'm not sure I agree with that statement. They've got a lot of users, many of which love the service, but as a business the fundamentals are far from sound. I'm yet to be convinced that paid advertising is a model that will work on Twitter, and I can't really see any other model beyond persuading people to pay to hide the adverts (which destroys their advertiser base).
Twitter started as a hobby side project to communicate between a few friends, not a business, and you can see that in everything they do.