Goal: A Billion People On Twitter Netizen April 2009
Fred Wilson
Twitter’s Internal Strategy Laid Bare: To Be “The Pulse Of The Planet” TechCrunch the dedication and deep commitment of this team to making Twitter into a world-class company ....... a key strategy meeting which took place on February 25, 2009. One of the audacious goals laid out in the notes of the strategy meeting is for Twitter to become the first Web service to reach one billion users ....... more of a “nervous system” than an alert system. ........ the strategic thinking of the company just before it entered its current phase of hypergrowth. ....... Much of the discussion at Twitter meetings throughout the past six months revolved around dealing with Google and Facebook. ......... a new Terms of Service agreement which will launch in conjunction with new APIs. These will determine what kind of
Twitter’s Financial Forecast Shows First Revenue In Q3, 1 billion users in 2013 TechCrunch Q3 2009 (which is now). A modest $400,000 was expected, followed by a more robust $4 million in Q4. ....... Twitter’s projected user growth (25 million by the end of 2009), which it has absolutely blown through already. By the end of 2010, Twitter expected to be at a $140 million revenue run rate. ........ the numbers they were targeting for the end of 2013: 1 billion users, $1.54 billion in revenue, 5,200 employees and $1.1 billion in net earnings.
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