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Explains why revenue stays vague while 97% of engineering effort goes to product quality, with advertising, paid business features and data/insight services as plausible monetization paths; details platform strategy: public API, firehose, and new lists API launched to enable discovery while keeping third‑party clients useful; growth shifts to mobile and international (top markets: US, UK, Brazil, Japan, Indonesia) and a major Airtel SMS deal in India for 110M users; notes past scaling fixes, persistent reliability bugs and spam suspension quirks.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Start
- 8:37Twitter's Growth
- 18:30What Do You Make of Google Wave
- 33:23The Twitter Suggested Users List
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