Comments on: Would you invest in Twitter?

By: Dividend Growth Investor

Dividend Growth Investor — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:28:25 +0000

If they were so great.. Why not slap adsense on top of it..Or some affiliate mumbo-jumbo.. Even in the worst case they should get SOME revenues through advertising..
Or maybe their idea of monetizing is to let paying users send more than 140 symbols in a message or target a message to a certain group of Tweeter users..
I am on Twitter, but so far haven’t seen any impact.. It might be because I don’t know how to use it or don’t know how to most effectively measure Twitter’s success..

By: Lance

Lance — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:28:29 +0000

Just another passing fad… if you have the timing for such things, you can make a lot of money investing in up and coming fads. Just know when the right time is to jump off the ship.

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By: mfd

mfd — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:13:26 +0000

Being in IT I have very little faith in social media sites. They’re just a fad until something different comes a long. I would never invest in any of them.

By: guinness416

guinness416 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:09:17 +0000

Do you ever read avc.com? He is one of the VCs backing twitter and blogs about it from time to time.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:58:01 +0000

You make a good point about business plans not being disclosed. But even if it was, could it over-come the business issue of what life problem it is suppose to solve and how you get people to pay for what use to be a free service?

By: the weakonomist

the weakonomist — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:16:01 +0000

I have to disagree. Twitter isn’t a public company so they don’t have to tell you what their business plan is. You better believe they’re VCs have an idea or two of that potential business plans exist (and there are a number of them I’ve read about).

Of course the ultimate decision on an investment such as this would come down to value. Does $10 million get me 1% of the company or will it get me 20%? This impacts your expected return on investment.

With the public information available anyone would be a fool to throw money at Twitter, but we aren’t on conference calls and we don’t see pitch meetings.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:22:47 +0000

Ray- thanks. I am a bit of a broken record with social media!

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:25:04 +0000

You had a similar post a few weeks ago, I would never invest in these social media networks. Every few years there is a new thing that becomes the hit then is replaced by something else a few years later. Myspace then facebook now twitter a few years from now something new will pop up.