Comments on: Twitter Launches Another Business It Doesn't Make Money From: Trading Site StockTwits Raises $800,000 http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20081217/twitter-launches-another-business-it-doesnt-make-money-from-trading-site-stocktwits-raises-800000/ by Peter Kafka Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:52:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: nonpretentious » Get Rich Quick with Web 2.0 (Part 1): Network & Chat at the Watercooler – A How-To Guide on LinkedIn and Typing (I mean, Twittering) http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20081217/twitter-launches-another-business-it-doesnt-make-money-from-trading-site-stocktwits-raises-800000/comment-page-1/#comment-8934 nonpretentious » Get Rich Quick with Web 2.0 (Part 1): Network & Chat at the Watercooler – A How-To Guide on LinkedIn and Typing (I mean, Twittering) Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:30:37 +0000 http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/?p=2231#comment-8934 [...] you’re not using Twitter to cash in, well, then you’re pretty much like Twitter’s investors (for [...] [...] you’re not using Twitter to cash in, well, then you’re pretty much like Twitter’s investors (for [...]

]]> By: Jonathan Marcus http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20081217/twitter-launches-another-business-it-doesnt-make-money-from-trading-site-stocktwits-raises-800000/comment-page-1/#comment-1087 Jonathan Marcus Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:13:14 +0000 http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/?p=2231#comment-1087 Conventional wisdom suggests that charging for API access is a non-starter. But a multi-tier pricing model for differing degrees of access or usage may indeed be the most logical business model for Twitter, Facebook and a handful of other web services that support a wide variety of commercial activity. Blowhards will complain about the definition of commercial activity being a slippery grey slope. The wise businessman will simply editorialize at the margin. Conventional wisdom suggests that charging for API access is a non-starter.

But a multi-tier pricing model for differing degrees of access or usage may indeed be the most logical business model for Twitter, Facebook and a handful of other web services that support a wide variety of commercial activity.

Blowhards will complain about the definition of commercial activity being a slippery grey slope. The wise businessman will simply editorialize at the margin.

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