May 23

twitter

Many have wondering what Twitter make money on and how the popular site can survive. The answer is that they are not making money. But according to Twitter themselves, has they plenty of money in the bank and long-term investors with good patience. So they work peacefully and calmly with a business plan to find income opportunities.

The most logical method of financing is of course ads, but that has Twitter said no to. It will not be placing ads on their users’ micro-blogs; Twitter believes that the disadvantages are greater than the benefits. It simply makes too little money compared to how much criticism it is expected that such would generate.

 

Instead, it seems inclined to start up some form of payment accounts. Maybe can some certain percentage of users get to pay a membership fee for access to new and better features? I would guess that this is where they have to start looking. But I do not think you can block ads totally. I think there are a few; quite successful Twitter’s who would like to be able to place ads on their micro-blogs. Perhaps it is an opportunity that will be given on Twitter offers of payment accounts?

 

Right now seems they take it easy at Twitter and it does not seem to be a clear plan of how to finance the site in the future. They need to create some form of income, before the investors’ money is running out.

 

“It’s not tough for us because we have a lot of money in the bank and patient investors [and a] patient board,” said Stone during the interview in Twitter’s San Francisco offices. “We want to focus on this before profit. If we focus on profit, then we take people away from focusing on features.”

More about Twitter: 60 procent leave Twitter within a month.   

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May 11

Tutorial Blog has a very good list of 10 WordPress Tips & Tricks for Your Comment Page on WordPress blogs that you can do. Here you will find helpful tips on how you can make your comments easier to read, more well-designed and transparent, and more. Sometimes forget you to trim away commentators, which it is a bit unfortunate as it is often among the comments that it really fun with the blog posts will appear.
Titles of the guides Tutorial Blog has gathered are:

1. Display the total amount of comments on your blog.

2. A cleer row of alternating colors for your comments.

3. Giving your Wordpress comments a bit of style.

4. Seperate your comments from trackbacks.

5. Styling your author comments.

6. Numbering your Wordpress comments.

7. Disabling commenting on older posts.

8. Remove the comment section on your blog.

9. Use Twitter graphics in comments.

10. Ajax edit past comments.

 

There is a tips that I think is smart; Seperate your comments from trtackbacks,

something I probably soon will introduce in Sundream Estate blog. I have written a lot of tips and links for WordPress before. Since I run with WordPress for my blogs,try I to keep a little eye on what happens in the field – for example, the useful additions, and write here in my blog about it.

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May 6

It is a question – why leave so many? Twitter is an excellent service but it is understandable that twitter can not take over other services as Facebook and Myspace – Twitter should not do it, is whole different uses.

- There is no doubt that Twitter has grow exponentially in recent months thanks to all the attention the service received. The service grew by 100 percent during March, but the majorities, 6 of 10 people choose to stop using the service within a month.

The fact that Obama started use Twitter gave it substantial increase in users, but as soon as he finished in that he became president, just as quickly started to users lose interest. Think of it as running a blog. You can write how much any time and enormous contributions to both the content and design innovation texts, but if no one chooses to read, comment, or even follow the blog so the user will lose interest and stop. Twitter is on the same track.

Here you can follow thousands, but with no response, type the user for air. As with blogs follow the visitors content and Twitter can be used in various ways – ranging from short news messages to the personal I-do-this and have you no greater friendship circle, can the number of follower be very few at the end.

Twitters ability to maintain their users is much lower than, for example, Facebook and Myspace. These two services have the ability to keep 70 per cent compared with Twitters 40 percent.

As I wrote above, one should not compare Twitter with Facebook or Myspace, they’re good at completely different things and the latter is significantly better at retaining users when services entirely on building a network of contacts. Twitter is based on the short message to tell everyone and everything about everything. That so many that 6 of 10 reject Twitter does not surprise me, I will certainly stop a time. But until then, it is an interesting service.

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