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22 Twitter revenue streams – monetizing tweets

Laurel Papworth

SMS other social networks are built on SMS revenues such as SMSFun. Twitter has probably done their dash with doing SMS deals by now. Collectibles buy an account and get special badges like the Pro badge above. Or Foursquare style reward badges – most retweeted, most linked. Business ones even.

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Freemium Revenues: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

advertising? Advertising versus Free/Premium subscriptions. LinkedIn, in October 2009 had over 50 million members (plus 385 staff) $75-100m – 1/4 from advertising. I personally think that any social network that relies on traditional advertising for revenue is nuts. And what is free stuff anyway – marketing?