Twitter Expands into…. The Wine Business?
Yeah, that’s right, Twitter no longer is just a place to tell all your friends about everything you do. Check out this article, grab yourself a bottle of Twitter wine and THEN go post! At first thought, maybe this is Twitter’s way of creating some profit, but why wine? Of all things. Well, have it be known that Twitter is seriously creating its own brand of wine which will be known as Fledgling Wine (yeah, I get the correlation too….), but it will not be a source of profits for them. Instead, Twitter has decided to use all the proceeds from wine sales and donate them to Room to Read, an organization that promotes literacy in children throughout the world. Twitter will offer two types of this wine and it is important to know that for the time being it is a pre-order. The wine will not become available until 2010. At $20 bucks a bottle, not only can you give to a great cause, but also enjoy a great night of Twitter wine and Twitter updates!
It is kind of a stretch, but we have spent a lot of time in class about social networking, and Twitter in general for that matter. We have talked about how it is hard for companies such as Facebook and Twitter to become profitable and how they may go about doing that. While this is a philanthropic move for Twitter, this may help them in the future to become profitable. It is very interesting to see what social networking sites are doing to expand and differentiate themselves from one another. I feel that Twitter doing this, which is COMPLETELY random, is really going to help differentiate themselves from their competitors and maybe one day become profitable.
twiter wine .. twiter updates…. nice..