Neither site has managed to turn a profit; both are relying on investors to keep growing their technologies, while they try to produce a profitable business model. Will Twitter’s success continue, and will Digg continue to flat line? Who will pay?
Twitter users have been enjoying free services, and ad-free "Tweeting," but is that all about to end? Twitter founders intend to transform the service into a sustainable, revenue-generating business model.
Pownce, once thought to be Digg's Kevin Rose's answer to Twitter, has been acquired by Six Apart, the makers of TypePad and Movable type. Does this merger of two obsoletes have Web 3.0 potential?