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Dave Winer on the Bootstrapping Effect

I really liked Dave Winer’s recent analysis of what he calls the “continuous bootstrapping effect” of social media platforms. Twitter is the current holder of the baton in a series of social media bootstraps, each

April 29, 2009

Social Media

Will Twitter Be Acquired Before A Possible IPO?

So maybe Twitter doesn’t need a business model because the model is to 1) get scale and 2) sell. The question then is, who would buy Twitter? We know it won’t be Google. That

January 2, 2008