Twitter recruiting video.
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Do you remember the first time you saw an advertisement on Google?
Novel wasn’t it? What’s this intruder making a mess of my search results? Or, Wow, relevant ads based on my search. Whatever your response, you noticed. And you probably clicked.
After awhile, the novelty wore off. Maybe you…
Twitter is 5 years old today!
But before I pop the cork on my bottle of sparkling cider to drink to my overtly extroverted current existence, I wanted to pour a little out for our friend who isn’t here- Odeo.
You see, Odeo was launched into a world of promise. Founded by some of the brightest minds in the nascent field of social media. To capitalize on a new form of social expression. With an all-star roster of investors. In a sizzling hot market Web 2.0-ified market. And it failed.
Now, we all know Twitter was born from that failure, but what would have happened had Odeo not failed? Would we be talking about the democratization of information or would we be poking people and throwing sheep on Facebook? Would we be discussing ambient intimacy or would we be blinging out our MySpace pages? Did we dodge an Odeo shaped bullet?
Every time I pass on an investment, every time one of our portfolio companies hears “no” from a key hire I have to wonder whether we each, collectively, dodged a bullet. Some companies would have been worse off if they’d taken funding, some people would be better off working at other companies, and some ideas would have never happened if others had worked.
So Happy Birthday Twitter and thank you Odeo. If you’d have succeeded, Twitter would never have been. I, for one, am glad we dodged that bullet.
I would like to see a lot less people hunched over computers in their offices in five years.
Biz Stone, Twitter
(Source: reuters.com)
Twitter Inc.’s foray into advertising is receiving mixed reviews among marketers, underscoring the challenges of turning the popular micro-blogging service into a highly profitable enterprise.
Twitter Now the World's Fastest Growing Search Engine
Twitter now reaches some 800 million search queries per day. That’s over 24 billion searches per month, more than Bing (4.1 billion) and Yahoo (9.4 billion) combined.
Twitter doesn’t even care about making money. They think it’s cool that the State Department asked them to keep the servers running during the Iranian protests. And that is cool. But I respect companies that build a service that can scale and make a lot of money.
Mark Pincus, CEO Zynga
Twitter is about to announce a new pay model. For $25 a month, you never hear from Ashton Kutcher again.
Dennis Leary
Twitter: The graph above tells a story of how we’ve grown over the past three years in terms of number of tweets created per day.
