This blog post from Tech Crunch poses a very interesting potential business model for Twitter.  I didn’t realize it, but now new Twitter users are given suggestions for 100 people they should be following.  As you can imagine, the names on that Suggested 100 list stand to generate an ENORMOUS amount of followers, very quickly.  Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis has offered Twitter $250K to be on that list for 2 yrs.  So may think he’s crazy…I think he’d be getting a steal at this price.  It would cost $250K for a 30-second spot during a just ok primetime tv show.  How many eyeballs would that get you (with the DVR factor)?  Vs how many eyeballs and impressions being on this Twitter list will generate in 2 years.  Don’t have time to do the math right now, but will later and come up with an answer for this…

Very interesting.  Is Twitter a powerful media platform?  You bet it is…

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/12/how-much-is-a-suggested-slot-on-twitter-worth-jason-calacanis-offers-250000/

DS

Tags: ad buy, Jason Calacanis, platform, social media, twitter

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