Are you measuring "volume of communication" in messages, despite the fact that ICQ messages are one-to-one and private, whereas Twitter messages are one-to-many and (for the most part) public??
Well, Twitter's actually bringing in decent revenue thanks to search deals. There's a general agreement that realtime search of tweets is useful, whether or not it's particularly monetizable.
And calling Facebook "hugely profitable" is a stretch.
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It's about as popular as ICQ in terms of volume of communication.
Do you think ICQ is worth $10B?
Are you measuring "volume of communication" in messages, despite the fact that ICQ messages are one-to-one and private, whereas Twitter messages are one-to-many and (for the most part) public??
Is it obvious that one (public) is more monetizable than the other (private)?
Facebook is hugely profitable, but its messages are private...
Well, Twitter's actually bringing in decent revenue thanks to search deals. There's a general agreement that realtime search of tweets is useful, whether or not it's particularly monetizable.
And calling Facebook "hugely profitable" is a stretch.
Twitter has like 2 strategic 'customers' hasn't it? That seems like a really risky revenue stream to me, if you can even call it that.
You could argue that Mozilla has one.
Totally agree. And similarly (especially with the rapid growth of chrome) I think mozilla is pretty vulnerable.