Sites like Facebook, twitter, Bebo.....

[flare]

Hello!

Ok so ive always wondered why on earth these massive sites... facebook, youtube... bebo , twitter are worth absolute millions

I mean where is the stream of income, its free for everyone to sign up, i appreciate that it has massive traffic every hour. Is it through advertising that they earn so much ? ive had a couple of ideas of social sites but never fully understood how to make it profitable, im missing something :)

[BootCamp]

advertising. as you already guessed

[website]

the adverts on every page, if you look at some profiles with millions of views, just imagion how many clicks and impressions they get

[BlueprintAnimation]

You're not missing anything, as far as I understand it the majority of them aren't profitable in the normal sense and run on venture capital.

www dot theregister dot co dot uk/2009/02/14/web20rhea_funding/ (<- story about how Twitter seems to be banking on being bought by Google, and that's about it business-plan-wise.)

Facebook tried a while ago to record people's shopping history and sell it to advertisers but the users understandably weren't happy with that.

[flare]

Thought so :) cheers