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Twitter as an Investment?

Those of you that are enamored with Twitter and those of you who like a good stock investment tip every once in awhile, take note.

On paper, it seemed like a match made in heaven: A partnership between social networking giant Facebook, in whom Microsoft (MSFT) owns a 1.6% stake, and micro blogging platform Twitter was in the works. Then Evan Williams took over as Twitter's chief executive in October 2008, and tempting as it was, rebuffed a $500 million offer from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Williams had his reasons. The brains behind an earlier web 2.0 darling called Blogger -- which allows average Joes to share at will and was sold to Google (GOOG) in 2003. Williams stated that he didn't think Twitter was ready to be bought out, too much unfinished business.

Twitter and or Facebook may bare watching as an investment; no doubt some big fish, i.e. Microsoft or Google and other huge web related companies are circling. I have always been a believer in investing in companies that produce goods or services that the investor is familiar in. Many of us on ActiveRain are becoming more and more familiar with Twitter and can attest to its potential value, not only as a social networking tool and a micro blogging platform, but also as a potential investment.

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Posted by Dave Tipton, Broker, GRI, e-PRO, SRES Tampa Bay Area Real Estate on 12/14/2008 12:13 PM

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12 Comments on Twitter as an Investment?

DEC

2008

I definately have my eye on facebook over twitter... Think I'm making a mistake?

I am so unfamiliar with Twitter but read of many folks addicted to it here on AR. You may have made me look into it finally.

how do you link your active rain postings to twitter?

Colleeen- I'm not an expert on it either, but those within our organization who do know, seem to prefer Twitter. I'll defer to any of them to chime in. Thanks for the comment.

I'm a big fan of both Facebook AND Twitter. (Of course, they are vastly different environments).

For me, Facebook has been a great source of "sphere connection" more than agent community, etc. There are lots of local peeps on FB and so I feel like I'm "touching my sphere" (of influence) every time I update Facebook.

Twitter is way more geeky at the moment (my view). But, it's a terrific tool & it's gaining traction fast! Everyone from MC Hammer to CNN is using it to chat with their tribe. That might be the way it works best - for those who have a tribe.

You gotta learn to speek tweet & FB (and a few other languages too!)

Dave, thanks for starting to conversation :)

I am still trying to see the point of Twitter....as I am so new in the process. I wonder why so many people are tracking me in Twitter. Hope to GET IT soon.......

DEC

2008

You can link your ActiveRain blogs on Twitter by going to twitterfeed.com

Dave

I have been amazed at how many new sites are popping up in regards to web 2.0. The latest sites do not seem to attempt to take on the big boys directly (Facebook and Twitter) but are more niche related.

As a member of both Twitter and Facebook, the challenge has been whether I should open multiple twitter acconts and Facebook accounts to accomadate different interests and associations.

What does that have to do with investing? The money guys (Google and Microsoft) should look first before they leap. No one knows the half life of this phenomena. So as far as personal investing, I would take the same caution myself.

DEC

2008

I personally love Facebook and haven't tried out Twitter yet...guess I'll check it out.

Ricky- Thanks for the pearls of wisdom and for shedding the reality light on the investment topic.

Brandi- Thanks for the comment. There are several AR groups that specialize in sociual networking and web 2.0 stuff. Check them out.

DEC

If your really looking to see how your website ranks in the world go to www.alexa.com and put in your website. If your website comes up n/a and you have spent money on your website in the past, think about the money you just threw down the toilet. I dont do any twitter or online marketing and my sales are up because I had a great company called IMORIA do my website for me. After they finished now I can add new blogs, pages, featured listings & more myself and label the URLs what I want. It's great and since launching I'm getting about 10-15 new leads a week just from finding me on google. If you go to google.com and type Site:yourdomain.com you will see how many pages you have indexed on google.com, before going with IMORIA i had like 18, now I have over 28,000 it's awesome!

They are very different beasts... and neither is public yet, so I can't grab a chunk... and I don't know if I would. I would want to know the monetization plans for Twitter.

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