Micro-blogging

• A post by InternetNews reveals that Dell has made $1 million in sales directly from sending product alerts to people following Dell’s Twitter account.
• This news comes at the same time that Twitter is in the process of hiring a product manager to head up the task of monetizing the micro-blogging service.
• We reported earlier on Twitter CEO Evan Williams’ statement that he doesn’t want to raise any money in ‘09, going further to promise the service will turn on a revenue stream in Q1 of the new year. He was so confident that in November the company turned down a $500-million-in-Facebook-stock acquisition bid.
• Dell has shown that even without a business model, Twitter is being put to commercial use quite successfully. Twitter just has to figure out how to get a piece of the pie.
• Even if a business model doesn’t arrive tomorrow, you can bet that a service that companies are deriving real value from won’t go away anytime soon.
• I’m personally waiting for spam to hit Twitter hard. There are lot of affiliate marketing opportunities on the service that have not been exploited yet and it won’t be pretty.

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