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Twitter Profitability
First off, I want to preface this post by saying that, in the long-term, I don’t think the Internet can be made “profitable.” This is because the medium itself is inherently opposed to profit-making: it can be done, but only at the cost of either a quick death (for example, Napster) or a slow death (MySpace) of whatever kind of service is being offered. I firmly hold to the idea that the Internet is a new, intellectual form of the “commons” and while the commons can be deterritorialized and reterritorialized by capital, that model can’t be sustained for what is essentially free (in that all information ought to be free).