Twitter has decided it's time to leave the nest and take flight with a new ad-centric business model. Can the little microblogging service that could maintain good relations with its developers? Or are new rivals -- or partners -- just around the corner? Meanwhile, the public met Microsoft's next of Kin, the FCC met with Congress, and Apple met devs' wrath.
To their credit, Twitter's executives are self-aware enough to know the company has been living sort of like a trust-fund child well past its metaphorical college days. Every startup needs some time in the cradle, of course, but when you're hosting 50 million messages per day and you still don't have a revenue plan, questions start getting kind of pointed. This is not lost on cofounder Biz Stone. He recently wrote on the company blog, "Believe me, when your name is Biz and you're a cofounder of Twitter, it also means putting yourself at the mercy of folks like Stephen Colbert who hit home runs with lines like, 'So, I assume that 'Biz' in 'Biz Stone' does not stand for 'Business Model.'"
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Twitters-New-Flight-Plan-69796.html
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