<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/87b0540a-e00a-4c99-b803-8db314338a64/4E2353E8-EADB-42EC-8A52-DBB12B7EEBE7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/01/twitter-is-a-cash-cow-in-the-making.html" href="http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/01/twitter-is-a-cash-cow-in-the-making.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.marketingpilgrim.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/01/twitter-is-a-cash-cow-in-the-making.html">Twitter secured <A href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/24/twitter-raising-new-cash-at-250-million-valuation/">$20 million</A> in venture capital, to push its total valuation to $250 million. It wasn’t long ago that Twitter started looking for a <A href="http://twitter.jobscore.com/jobs/twitter/businessproductmanager/cDXASSNZCr3AYYaaWP50_m">product manager</A> to define a revenue stream. This is a smart move for a company that has relied solely on venture capital from day one.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/01/twitter-is-a-cash-cow-in-the-making.html"><P>Andy recently wrote <A href="http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/01/dear-twitter-im-the-type-of-user-you-can-make-money-from.html">a post</A> detailing his thoughts for a Twitter subscription program. This is an idea that even Twitter’s CEO Evan Williams has <A href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/15/interview-with-evan-william-summize-acquisition-api-issues-and-their-revenue-model/">spoken about</A> in the past.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/01/twitter-is-a-cash-cow-in-the-making.html"><P>While I think that a subscription based program of some kind would be a good idea (one I would probably subscribe to), I think that implementing that alone would miss Twitter’s full potential completely.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/01/twitter-is-a-cash-cow-in-the-making.html">As Seth Godin states, <A href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/01/what-tools-shou.html">Twitter is a protocol</A>. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/01/twitter-is-a-cash-cow-in-the-making.html"><P><EM>So, Twitter is a protocol, whats the big deal?</EM> Protocols control the flow of information. Those that have become <A href="http://www.google.com">masters at information control</A> have built insurmountable wealth as a result. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4E2353E8-EADB-42EC-8A52-DBB12B7EEBE7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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