140Mafia on Twitter makes perhaps money

Perhaps the first Twitter-based game to make money for Twitter.

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Italy’s GDP down 9.6% first three months (annualized), or 2.4% Q1. Germany takes the cake with clocking in at 3,8%!! Might wanna change the export-addicted business model.

While Latvia tops this by factor 2. You got to love EuroSuck.

Guatemala authorities arrest finance Twitterer

And how is that for a toxic asset?

Green shoots or some dose of sober assessment?

Sir Allen Stanford, it was not a Ponzi?!

The Economist about the news business

FTD: Twitter verwirrt

So hier die FTD.

Gut, dass FTD den journalisten-professionellen Überblick behält und zwei Versionen über den Amoklauf bietet:

„15 Menschen, so wird sich später herausstellen, hat der Täter umgebracht, ehe er selbst im Kugelhagel stirbt.“

und im selben Artikel

„Anfangs gibt die Polizei an, einer ihrer Beamten habe den Todesschützen erschossen. Später korrigiert sie sich: Tim K. sei angeschossen worden und habe sich dann selbst gerichtet.“

Call that journalistic hedging.

Be a magpie, schiess sie ab.

 Das schöne an Twitter war immer, das man kommunizieren konnte, ohne Werbung ansehen zu müssen. Ein deutscher Startup, Be-A-Magpie hat ein bislang einmaliges und völlig ungetestetes Businessmodell entdeckt: eh, Werbung. Kudos und Congrats. Genial.

Faceberg macht Vögelangebot

„See the arrow, that’ll be the performance of our 35 billion stock offering in, eh, uhm, 2011, about.“

Marc, No Profits, Zuckerbook sieht immenses Symbiosepotential und bietet 500 Millionen $ für Twitter. Twitters Businessmodel ist einfach bestechend und würde genial zu dem von FB passen: no Profits und eine Burnrate, die Red Adair erblassen lassen würde.

Twitter weist brüskiert ab. Kurzer Realitycheck, ist da ‘ne Finanzkrise von Dolly Parton Proportionen oder über was reden diese Blasebälge?

SA: Facebook offered to buy Twitter for $500 million of overvalued Facebook stock, Kara Swisher says. Twitter rejected the offer for several reasons:

• At Facebook’s real valuation, $5 billion or so, the offer only amounted to $150 million (not bad for two-year old company with no revenue, but a far cry from the billion-dollar dream)
• Twitter has high hopes for its own secret revenue model which will be announced next year.
• Twitter’s investors aren’t stupid: They wanted cash. Facebook presumably doesn’t have that much cash to spare.

Kara Swisher:

The $500 million offered was in an all-stock form, said sources on both sides, at the $15 billion valuation that came from the Microsoft investment in the company last October.

The Twitter side felt that figure was inflated and the shares should be valued at the lower figures that have also been reported for Facebook’s true valuation, more in the $5 billion range.

That would have given the deal a $150 million price tag, which was seen as too low, especially since it was in Facebook stock and not cash.

In fact, Twitter wanted cash, which was not possible for Facebook, or Facebook stock at an even lower valuation that $5 billion.

But, said several sources close to Twitter, the primary reason for not selling was because its board simply did not want to yet or perhaps ever.

Said one source: ‘The question is, is it really a good idea to sell on the first chance you get?’…

‘It’s more about timing,’ said one person familiar with Twitter’s motivations. ‘There is a strong feeling that there is still an opportunity-even with the economic downturn-to blow this thing out.’