Comments on: It's a good thing Facebook's not buying Twitter

The match looks good on the surface, but deep down it's a mess.

[mjconver]

Twitter has no value, it's less than a commodity. The kind of people who care whether other people in their network are going to lunch are the same morons who buy Style magazine in the check-out line when Brittney Spears forgets to wear her underwear leaving the club. Since twitter has no ad space to include with the "articles", it has no value.

[tm_anon]

Twitter has huge value as a communication device. If a Twitter page were taken by a business for example, instead of huge press releases to get the word out slowly via news stations for whatever new service is being provided, putting up a tweet about it allows everyone following this company to see the news right away. Because of the way this is setup in Twitter, if utilized properly by Facebook, this could in fact allow for huge revenue streams. Put up a Twitter section on Facebook and allow companies to buy a certain number of Tweets per month to go out to the Facebook users. Allow customization of that Twitter application in Facebook by the individual users in a way that would allow them to Tweet their friends and they'll pay attention to what's in that Twitter section. Allow the users to pay to opt out of recieving the Tweet ads by removing their names from the main list and there's yet another revenue stream. In short, Twitter could not only have allowed Facebook to grow to a point where they become the Google equivalent of the social sites, but it could have allowed them such luxuries as customized backgrounds for individual users, among other things.

[I_C_E]

Facebook should manage their incredible business- acquisitions of this scope are a distraction- it puts to much pressure on every decision of how to incorporate Twitter - there becomes this new mental obligation to put (another huge question mark) it in the mix of all go forward strategy- its a great buy for a mobile manufacturer/ carrier then license to the other manufacturers/carriers - if you cant twit would you buy the phone?

I have a great rev model for twitter-

Need a piece of the action though to give it up!

Have a great Holiday -

[WeCanDoBIZ]

Surely Facebook needs to acquire a business that brings a vlid revenue model with it; NOT yet another way to spew cash while everyone sits around scratching their heads staring at a blank business plan.

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz