{"id":1998,"date":"2009-02-23T23:19:25","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T23:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/23\/the-sunday-times-is-pre-revenue-lets-twitter-that\/"},"modified":"2009-02-23T23:19:25","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T23:19:25","slug":"the-sunday-times-is-pre-revenue-lets-twitter-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/02\/the-sunday-times-is-pre-revenue-lets-twitter-that\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sunday Times is Pre-Revenue, Let&rsquo;s Twitter That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think Kevin Marks nails the reply to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/02\/22\/twitter-is-like-the-womb-says-the-sunday-times\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Sunday Times Twitter article<\/a> rather nicely:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Launched in 1821, The Sunday Times is the inescapable, old tech product. It boasts 1.2m readers \u2014 teeny compared to the BBC World Services&#8217;s 183m \u2014 but its audience has slumped in the past year. <\/p>\n<p>Right now, the Australia-based company that owns The Sunday Times is valued at $29billion, even though, in start-up argot, it is \u201cpre-revenue\u201d. Despite the big losses and the ennui swirling around his product, Murdoch (who also coined the term \u201cDigger\u201d) has admitted many are bewildered when they first encounter The Sunday Times. \u201cWe\u2019ve heard time and time again: \u2018I really don\u2019t get it \u2014 why would anyone read it?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a fair question. What kind of person shares opinion with the world the minute they get it? And just who are the \u201creaders\u201d willing to tune into this weekly news service of the ego?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The full post is <a href=\"http:\/\/epeus.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/load-of-thunderer.html\" target=\"_blank\">worth reading on his blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think Kevin Marks nails the reply to The Sunday Times Twitter article rather nicely: Launched in 1821, The Sunday Times is the inescapable, old tech product. It boasts 1.2m readers \u2014 teeny compared to the BBC World Services&#8217;s 183m \u2014 but its audience has slumped in the past year. Right now, the Australia-based company that owns The Sunday Times is valued at $29billion, even though, in start-up argot, it is \u201cpre-revenue\u201d. Despite the big losses and the ennui swirling around his product, Murdoch (who also coined the term \u201cDigger\u201d) has admitted many are bewildered when they first encounter The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,5,685],"tags":[931,930,917,87],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-quote-for-the-day","category-twitter-web-20","tag-kevin-marks","tag-news-international","tag-the-sunday-times","tag-twitter","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-we","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}