The Ultimate - or - The Only One We Came Up With (in 10 mins.)<p>So you attach contextual ads(wow. brilliant.). How does someone interact with this ad? You only have 140 chars. Not enough to create a link, and also describe the ad without consuming the entire 140. Also, people are on their cell phone, do you rely on the user having web access on their phone (that is spawn-able from a txtmsg)? Do you send them a follow-up AdTweet after every regular Tweet they receive?<p>Without consuming the entire 140chars. or sending a followup AdTweet, you are limited to simple branding messages like, "Drink Coke." appended to the bottom. No good.<p>In this incarnation, Twitter doesnt make any money because they are subjugated to the cell carriers revenue model.
Is it really possible for a website like Twitter to receive as much investment as I am sure they have without any sort of business plan in place for making money?<p>Can somebody literally say to an investor "Hey, we are just focusing on getting eyeballs, we will worry about how to actually make money later on" and still get money?<p>I'm not being sarcastic, I honestly want to know the answer to this question.<p>My gut says there is a HUGE difference between a private monetization strategy (one that hasn't been implemented but was part of the plan all along) and the sort of 'on the fly' kind of make-it-up-as-we-go philosophy that this article seems to think Twitter is using. I'm not sure I buy the idea that Twitter really doesn't have a plan.