How does Twitter make their money?
 

No ads anywhere... How do they make money?

mabe they sell there database.

none - the hun gets revenue from pre-paid gallery placements on the top 15 spaces and banners. the rest of thegalleries are free placements.

Investors. Monetization comes after they reach critical mass. (I guarantee those conversations are happening now).

lots of investors/venture capital, they said they are going to be doing premium twitter accounts, and having non intrusive ads later on.

they currently have ads in the trending topic section

http://mashable.com/2010/06/16/trending-topics-ads/

They have recently starting doing premium trending topics. The first one was a massive success and since then a few more have appeared. Just look over to the right under trending topics and you'll see a yellow premium icon next to one of the keywords.

they sell drugs :) they dont make money, probably will with some ad injection

Will be interesting to see if the advert direction works.

Advertising on Google is different from advertising on Twitter.

Does Youtube make a profit yet?

This year, says Barclays analyst Douglas Anmuth. He predicts that the video site will see revenue jump 55 percent, to $700 million, in 2010, and that it will ?start contributing positively? to the Google?s earnings.

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/2010...fit-this-year/