A business model for Twitter?
I’ve heard a fair share of second-guessing about how the police and the administration in Blacksburg handled yesterday’s terrible events, particularly how slow they were to notify the campus about what was going on. I don’t pretend to know whether and to what to degree they were wrong, but it seems pretty obvious to me that every school in the country should have a Twitter channel and require every student and faculty member to sign up for it.
Yeah, a lot of people would turn off their phones in class, but plenty of them wouldn’t, and the people outside of class may have been able to identify the shooter before he got to second crime scene.
April 18th, 2007 at 10:20 am
Great idea for schools to have a Twitter channel but it doesn’t need to be the business model. They’re after subscribers, so they would want all schools to sign up.
Perhaps better than this, Facebook should move on this immediately and make that little “what I’m doing right now” section (forgot what they call it) into their own set of Twitter-like features. All the students would already be signed up and the schools would just need to activate the channel.
April 18th, 2007 at 10:59 am
Facebook integation is a no-brainer IMO. Twitter supposedly spends huge amounts on infrastrucutre and messaging fees. If they could get a substantial percengate of schools to sign up even at $100/year, they’ll come out ahead because presumably these school channels won’t have as much traffic as, say , Robert Scoble’s.
April 18th, 2007 at 11:30 am
I can see it now:
“Twitter with Facebook, Scoble not included!”
April 19th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
What about a good old fashioned megaphone or announcement system. I am sure they have one of those.