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Indulge me please: off the top of your head, could you define briefly what Twitter is, who uses it, how popular it is, and its business model?

Posted by Max Oct 5 '15, 16:45

If you can't come up with anything for Twitter, are you able to come up with those definitions for companies like Facebook, or Microsoft?

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At least for Twitter and Facebook, their business model so far has been: ads - jangles Oct 5, 16:55 2
- This is part of twitter's offering - promoted tweets. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 5, 16:56 1
  - ... I'd edit that to remove the stupidity, but I'm lazy. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 5, 16:56
Twitter is a subway station full of people all yelling at each other, but you sort of get to choose whose yelling you listen to. - Beryllium Oct 5, 16:53 1
- It's a hard line into the cultural, contemporal zeitgeist, man, and you can't stop it, you just can't. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 5, 16:58
Users seem to tend your younger vs older (no surprise) as well as anyone involved in/with media. There are other groups I'm sure. - ty97 Oct 5, 16:50
21'st century pony express..most everyone..way too popular..make $$$$$ -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 5, 16:48
Social network messaging system allowing users to post 140-character message that can be read publicly or by a list of followers - prayformojo Oct 5, 16:48 4
- I got into it with Marketplace because their last couple reports have been "Is it a tech company? Is it something else?" and being all chicken little - Max Oct 5, 17:23 2
  - Don't mess with Kai Rysdall sucka -- nm - jangles Oct 5, 17:24 1
    - I'm messing with Marketplace's Molly Wood -- (link) - Max Oct 5, 18:14
- Also: cat gifs -- nm - ML Galaxy Oct 5, 16:49

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