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Comments on: No surprise here: Oprah appearance huge for Twitter

The April 17 episode of the wildly popular talk show featured the hot microblogging tool, and as with any Oprah-approved product, there was a surge of interest afterward.

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by Powerpeacemaster April 22, 2009 9:30 AM PDT: Hey Oprah made a splash but she is far from a regular and has posted no messaging capacity. I am surprised she was not able to hook up a direct link from Twitter to her web site. Twitter better get on it and increase the server capacity.
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by spectator1 April 22, 2009 9:45 AM PDT: I am curious to see if the Midas touches will help an affiliate of Walmart, Itune, Microsoft generate revenue by being associated the Oprah Twitter craze. Everyone would like to be notice and be known for being successful. Without all the details of our lives just check us out on Twitter D L SERVICES INC.; Like this Reply to this comment


by kgsbca April 22, 2009 10:51 AM PDT: "But what's really going to be interesting is to see how many of these curious new visitors come back regularly."

No, what's really going to be interesting is to see how twitter plans to make any money.

twitter has realized there is no viable business model, so they have embarked on a great PR campaign to expand their visibility, in the hopes that some schmuck of an exec gets the genius idea of buying them. create a buzz, start rumors that google might buy them, leak hints about new stuff coming out, and get celebrities to pimp their product. but they don't charge for anything, and since they depend on short text messages that don't leave much room for advertisements, it's hard to see how they will pay for servers, bandwidth, and texting charges.; Like this Reply to this comment


by ca5ter April 22, 2009 11:40 AM PDT: I Twitter on the $h#tter; Like this Reply to this comment


by eltoro2827 April 22, 2009 3:33 PM PDT: twitter is for celebs...im not one..dont plan to be one...and can care less about them; Like this Reply to this comment


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