HipMojo.com http://watchmojo.com/web/blog Covering Online Video, Web, Search, Investing, Technology, Strategy, Investing, M&A, Financing, VCs Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:40:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 en Amazon.com’s Call Option on Twitter http://watchmojo.com/web/blog/index.php/2008/06/24/amazoncoms-call-option-on-twitter/ http://watchmojo.com/web/blog/index.php/2008/06/24/amazoncoms-call-option-on-twitter/#comments Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:56:21 +0000 Ashkan Karbasfrooshan Amazon.comFinancingTwitter http://watchmojo.com/web/blog/index.php/2008/06/24/amazoncoms-call-option-on-twitter/ Twitter accepted some money from Spark Capital and Jeff Bezos.  The latter is interested because long ago I wrote that Twitter was far more of an e-commerce play than an ad play… but given the $150B US / $500B global advertising market, everyone and their cousin wants to have an advertising-based business model… which explains why most companies tend to rewrite their business plans of late (in other words: they have no business having an ad model, but I digress).

Anyway, I think this is the first step towards Amazon.com buying Twitter… it just makes more sense to use something like Twitter in a commercial capacity than a communications capacity, which is odd because Twitter now bills itself as a “communications utility”.  Whatever floats their boat…

Today, the vanity crowd uses Twitter in the way that they do, in 5 years - if Twitter is around - it will be used as a commercial platform.  Mark my words.

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