The Explosive Growth of Twitter

It is a staggering chart - taken from the Business Insider web site - and most newbie businesses would give their right arm for the sensational growth of users that Twitter has achieved! It is also testimony to the importance of network economies of scale. But can Twitter monetise the content from their ever-expanding army of users?

There are moves afoot! Today we learn that Twitter has reached an agreement with 16 partner sites including YouTube, Yahoo! and Flickr to embed content on its site, make their content stickier and make the site more appealing to potential advertisers.

I am a huge fan of Twitter - there are great opportunities for students and teachers to use it as a learning tool and I will blog about this a little later on in the term

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Unit 3 Micro: Is Facebook’s Social Network Dominance Eroding? [12 Jan 2012]
PLN: Economics Teachers on Twitter [25 Sep 2011]
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Nine Great Reasons for Economics & Business Teachers to use Twitter [28 Jun 2011]
Connecting to Digital Natives (and some great ads!) [17 Jun 2011]
Economics Teachers on Twitter [6 Jun 2011]
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Using Twitter - The Role of Hash Tags [15 Feb 2011]
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Twitter and Dynamic Efficiency [7 Oct 2010]
Twitter Daily Newspaper [24 Aug 2010]
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Using Twitter in the Classroom [6 Jun 2010]
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Economists on Twitter - And Using Twitter in Teaching [17 Feb 2010]
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The Economist and the FT on Twitter [6 Oct 2009]
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