Twitter is Doomed to Fail
With Twitter’s huge success in the blogging and social networking community, one has to think a website of it’s capacity and status must be forking out some serious cash to keep it’s users happy. Though Twitter has raised well over $15 million from VC’s, it can only go so far with startups.
Here’s the issue. Twitter has constant traffic going to and from it’s servers at all times of the day. Millions of users are letting others know that they are making pasta, going to the mall, posting links of sneezing pandas, etc. All these updates cause an enormous strain on the Twitter servers, and like most of us have experienced, downtime. In order for Twitter to improve their systems, there needs to be a steady source of income. Implement ads, right? WRONG!
Without doing any extensive research, I would say that at LEAST 85% of all active Twitter users use a 3rd party client to send and receive ‘tweets’. These 85% of users access the actual Twitter site maybe once per week, if that. That’s not nearly enough to generate 1% of what Twitter needs to keep their site up and running smoothly. Even if Twitter introduces their own client with visible ads, most Twitter users have already found and settled into a client which they like. There’s no need to switch.
The ONLY way that I can think to generate income, is if all users are required to ‘follow’ a certain Twitter bot which would send out 1 or 2 tweets per hour containing an advertisement. Aside from that, Twitter needs to do some serious thinking and research.
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