http://www.meydad.com/2009/03/04/topify-upgrades-twitter-weakest-link/ Thoughts on social applications, usability, search, mobile, music and sports Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:44:21 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.meydad.com/2009/03/04/topify-upgrades-twitter-weakest-link/comment-page-1/#comment-20588 jaymeydad Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:14:57 +0000 http://www.meydad.com/?p=824#comment-20588 Aren't the 3rd party app developers adopting Twitter's Modus operandi and also focus on growth? Aren't the 3rd party app developers adopting Twitter's Modus operandi and also focus on growth?

]]> http://www.meydad.com/2009/03/04/topify-upgrades-twitter-weakest-link/comment-page-1/#comment-20587 Angel Leon Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:32:33 +0000 http://www.meydad.com/?p=824#comment-20587 They're waiting to have 60M users at least, so they can have a billion dollar valuation.<br>They're totally focusing on growth, and should be (if they're not already) focusing on creating one hell of a search engine so they can sell ads on search results a few years from now.<br>It'll be an immense technical challenge to index and serve search about data that's being created a few seconds ago, if they pull that off with an userbase upwards of 60Million users, they'll have a billion dollar business in their hands. Managing the synchronization between Email server based user interactions (marking people as followed) might be a tad complex even for twitter, maybe Topify has a good thing going for them here, then thing is... if they don't get bought, how do they make money? (putting ads on emails?, freemium models) They're waiting to have 60M users at least, so they can have a billion dollar valuation.
They're totally focusing on growth, and should be (if they're not already) focusing on creating one hell of a search engine so they can sell ads on search results a few years from now.
It'll be an immense technical challenge to index and serve search about data that's being created a few seconds ago, if they pull that off with an userbase upwards of 60Million users, they'll have a billion dollar business in their hands. Managing the synchronization between Email server based user interactions (marking people as followed) might be a tad complex even for twitter, maybe Topify has a good thing going for them here, then thing is… if they don't get bought, how do they make money? (putting ads on emails?, freemium models)

]]> http://www.meydad.com/2009/03/04/topify-upgrades-twitter-weakest-link/comment-page-1/#comment-20586 OurielOhayon Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:28:48 +0000 http://www.meydad.com/?p=824#comment-20586 great post jay. i think your analysis is spot on. great post jay. i think your analysis is spot on.

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