Although it might sound like a bit of a poetic license to compare Mig33, with its email, IM and other communication applications, with Twitter, it is interesting to see how international comparisons start to be made. And how those comparisons actually make sense. Will the Twitter canary survive?
via techcrunch.com
Mig33’s users are now sending over 1 million virtual gifts a month, and posting approximately 100 million messages a day on its network, or 1,000 messages every second. Twitter, in comparison, just passed 50 million a day. Mig33 is eying the virtual gift economy as a revenue maker because of the model’s success for China’s similar application, Tencent QQ. According to Mig33, the Chinese mobile social application has nearly 8% of its over 500 million users in China paying about $2 per month in virtual gifts and goods. Mig33 is hoping to emulate that model in markets like Indonesia, India, South Africa, Bangladesh, Kenya, and Bosnia.
Girl with a dead canary, painting by Jean-Baptiste_Greuze
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