Not necessarily from advertising. Twitter's inventor is the same guy who came up with blogger, Evan Williams [economist.com]. The product was never designed with monetization in mind. Twitter is a typical "build first figure out monetization later" project. Despite it's web 2.0 pedigree, the lack of built-in monetization is a feature that makes it resemble web 1.0 failures, and a few sucesses. Which is almost another way of saying, Build first and cash out when G/Y/M buys us. [edited by: martinibuster at 5:16 pm (utc) on Aug. 19, 2008]
