Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands — Starting With Mine 299
concealment sends this quote from an article at ReadWriteWeb:
"Tech billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban says he is fed up with Facebook and will take his business elsewhere. He's sick of getting hit with huge fees to send messages to his team's fans and followers. Two weeks ago Cuban tweeted out a screen grab of an offer he'd received from Facebook. The social network wanted to charge him $3,000 to reach 1 million people. Along with the screen grab, Cuban wrote, 'FB is blowing it? This is the first step. The Mavs are considering moving to Tumblr or to new MySpace as primary site.'"
Congratulations, Mr. Cuban! (Score:5, Funny)
Congratulations, Mr. Cuban! Facebook now considers you not just a product, but an actual user/venture-capital source!
Low low price! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Cuban is bluffing... (Score:5, Funny)
Seriously, MySpace?!
Dude, MySpace offered him a gigabyte of complementary bling .gifs for his page. That much ice is worth, like, ten zillion internet dollars.
MySpace? (Score:5, Funny)
So the Mavs will be offering nude player pics and I-Pod playlists?
Re:That is cheap (Score:5, Funny)
This is true. I've worked in advertising and $3000 ain't bad. Sounds like a temper-tantrum to me.
"The Mavs are considering moving to Tumblr or to new MySpace as primary site."
That's like going from primetime TV to midnight re-runs.
Re:Low low price! (Score:5, Funny)
MySpace will charge you $3,000 to reach all 10 people who are still using MySpace.
Why pay that when I could just purchase a controlling interest in Myspace by digging between my couch cushions?
Re:what ever happened to hosting your own site? (Score:4, Funny)
A billion users on Facebook happened.
But 950,000,000 of those are fake and 49,000,000 of the rest haven't logged in for six months.
Facebook is just so 2010.
Re:Why do companies use FaceBook anyway? (Score:4, Funny)
Like that rich kid in school that nobody really actually likes.