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Will Twitter Be Able To Monetize? | BestTechie.net — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:40:54 +0000

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By: Dave

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By: njar

njar — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:14:51 +0000

@Deb re:

“BTW, I pay well under $10 a month for 1000 texts. If I, without the ability to negotiate bulk deals, can get that, why is Twitter claiming that it costs them ten times more? (And even that’s assuming that every user receives 250 SMS a week, which wasn’t the case.)”

The SMS structure in the US is actually very different to most other regions, and in the UK for instance Twitter would likely have been paying a base SMS cost of around 3p+/- (6c) per message. In the US they’d be paying either nothing or a lot lot less. They (Twitter) did as far as I am aware approach the UK networks to ask/demand free SMS, and I’d imagine they were laughed out of house.

Ultimately Twitter is slowly gaining traction as a consumer product, but it’s still very much a niche technophile product.. The free SMS model outside of regions where they themselves can aquire free messages will always fail. Someone eventually has to pay for the messages, and Twitter giving them away at a large loss is not sustainable and never would have been. If Jaiku or anyone else is offering ‘Free’ SMS in the UK or most of the world (without sponsorship etc) then they’ll close this eventually too.

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Delia — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:29:32 +0000

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