[lbo-talk] much atwit about twitter

Bob Morris bob.morris at gmail.com
Sun Sep 27 15:24:40 PDT 2009



>
> is twit another one of those sites that doesn't support itself through ad
>> revs?
>>
>
> They're supposed to start selling ads by the middle of next year. Right
> now, their income is about $0.
>

OTOH Facebook just stopped development on their PayPal killer, because their ad revenue is going through the roof and they want to focus on that instead.

thanks to a sudden uptick in brand and self-service sales, Facebook's ad sales team <http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-state-of-affairs-2009-9#> is -- in the words of one source -- “beating the shit out of its numbers."

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-state-of-affairs-2009-9

A lot of people early on thought Google would never make money either...



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