Comments on: Is Twitter Worth $1 Billion?

By: Singapore SEO

Singapore SEO — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:49:21 +0000

I will be looking forward to a payment system using Twitter. That will be nice and interactive.

By: Parallel Import Cars

Parallel Import Cars — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:53:16 +0000

It was around 150 Million in April. Then estimated 1 Billion in June. But with the current depression, they would be lucky to be worth 80 Million.

By: Seo

Seo — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:09:12 +0000

Twitter is still going through funding meaning they're yet to be profitable yet. Just recovering the costs would be something that will take some time to achieve.

By: Las Vegas Travel

Las Vegas Travel — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:48:52 +0000

It sounds really cool, although I'd rather pick up my own beer.

By: PacNet

PacNet — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:47:51 +0000

How viable is this idea? Is it safe?

By: Racing Schools

Racing Schools — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:39:02 +0000

How well it takes off is dependent on how much they charge for the service.

By: Nate Westheimer

Nate Westheimer — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:09:25 +0000

One of the smarter conclusions which has come out of the discussion about my post is the idea that PayPal wake up and build something on top of Twitter. I think the talk about Twitter’s reliability is a valid one, but I state early in my post that the reliability issue is a constant for me. They either will or they won’t fix things in the end. Clearly they can’t proceed on any plan without fixing the most fundamental issues.

Good discussion though!

By: Nate Westheimer

Nate Westheimer — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:09:25 +0000

One of the smarter conclusions which has come out of the discussion about my post is the idea that PayPal wake up and build something on top of Twitter. I think the talk about Twitter's reliability is a valid one, but I state early in my post that the reliability issue is a constant for me. They either will or they won't fix things in the end. Clearly they can't proceed on any plan without fixing the most fundamental issues.

Good discussion though!

By: dcpatton

dcpatton — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:21:28 +0000

I think you have a typo in there Nick. I believe it should be “p dcpatton $50″.

By: dcpatton

dcpatton — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:21:28 +0000

I think you have a typo in there Nick. I believe it should be “p dcpatton $50″.

By: dangrsmind

dangrsmind — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:36:48 +0000

Nope. Payment processing requires even more robust performance than Twitter’s existing messaging/micro-blogging application. You can’t give people the fail whale when they are trying to buy something or pay a bill.

Also Twitter would face competition from Facebook, PayPal (don’t they essentially offer this already?), Google, etc. In the end this would turn Twitter into an execution play, and they’ve already shown that they can’t execute on various key aspects of their business, i.e. reliability and scalability.