How A Spare Computer Became TwitPic, A $1.5+ Million A Year Twitter Success Story – Andrew Warner’s interview with Noah Everett.

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In 2008, Noah Everett wanted to share photos on Twitter. Since there was no way to do it, he grabbed an old server and created Twitpic as a side project. This program will show you how he did it, but before you listen to it, I want to give you some numbers:

- In terms of traffic, Alexa says Twitpic is a top 100 site

- In 2009, the site did over $1.5 million in ad sales

- For every million in sales, the company keeps $700,000

- The site has about 6.5 million registered users

- Noah was recently offered 8 figures for the business

- There are only 4 people working on the site (including Noah’s parents)

At this point, I bet many readers’ eyes will glaze and they’ll say, “Dumb luck, Andrew. This story is just as useful to me as studying a lottery winner.” I anticipated that, which is why Noah and I spent so much time in this interview going over the specific techniques that got him here and talking about what YOU learn from the way he built the company.

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