• Wired, Tuesday, October 20, 2009 2:32 PM

Twitter is on track to earn $4 million in revenue this year, according to Wired magazine. Not a mind-blowing figure, but not bad for a company that at least feigns utter naivety. "If there are three sentences I'd use to describe Twitter," co-founder Biz Stone tells Wired, "One of them would be 'I don't know.'"

The company has serious international ambitions, which it intends to realize through deals with telecoms that build Twitter into browsers or texting options. How's it going to start raking in the cash? In no time at all, Twitter is going to have verified accounts, plus analytics to help companies look at discussions on Twitter. There's search revenue, and it will have a lot of precious data on people.

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