Warnings of a Twitter Bubble
[TwiTip] – What does it mean when hundreds of third party services (with questionable, if any, business models) are dependent upon a single service which itself has no business model? This post by Neal Wiser suggests that Twitter’s amazing growth and popularity are indicators that the company is at the center of an emerging Bubble and examines
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