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Well, it's not selling crack cocaine, but hey, its more than Twitter.

I don't think it is more than twitter. Recently the Twitter COO indicated twitter made more than $4 million from the Google and Microsoft deals.

FWIW Even if true, I'd rather have a large number of consumers spending money, than 2 customers paying millions.

Getting from the first line of code to $1000 revenue is the hardest part of ANY business. Think about it. Google. Facebook. Twitter.

TweetMiner did that in 98 days. That's VERY rare for a web startup, especially for a part time project in a space that everyone says is not monetizeable.

Sometimes it's not about the amount of revenue - it's more about what the business proves. After that it's just a question of scaling and not f*ing up...

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