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How does one monetize a twitter client? I've been using TweetDeck and while its great I haven't looked at one ad. Nor have I paid for anything. Nor would I. I guess I'm not clear how they are worth $25million when they appear to have no revenue stream and are competing directly with Twitter and Facebook.



They don't. I don't think there's a 3rd party company who "makes a living" from selling twitter clients. In this space, money are made selling "social media analytics" to "enterprise" customers. And obviously it's easier to sell that when you have a "name" on the twitter client market. Now you see the connection ?




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