Twitter is not making any dollars and everyone seems obsessed with that question. Rightly so. They are trying to experiment advertising (i have tried it myself) but i am not convinced this is the right way to go. There are at least 10 easy ways Twitter could make money (this will be a different post).
The question i wanted to ask today is about the business Twitter generates as a phenomenon for others.
Think about it: there are so many ways companies or people make money because of /Thanks to Twitter. Just to mention a few :
Premium iPhone Apps for Twitter (Tweetie,...), SMS for operators, Twitter conferences, Books, Gurus "Training" about how to use twitter in corporations, Twitter premium services (CoTweet, TweetLater,...), Twitter Templates, people finding jobs, investors (i know 2 of cases), customers, providers, Tshirts and mechandising, domain names for mashups and all those apps out there (Godaddies and co)....
I wonder how big is this economic ecosystem around Twitter. I would say no less than 50m USD. But this is a guestimate.
How big do you say?
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