Mediagazer: How Twitter's Ad Business Went From Zero to $500 Million in Less Than Four Years (Peter Kafka/AllThingsD)

10:50 PM ET, October 3, 2013

Top News:

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Twitter files to raise $1B, company is not profitable, will trade under ticker TWTR — Twitter had revenue of $253 million in the first six months of 2013 but it was not profitable, according to its S-1 prospectus, which was made public late Thursday. The company filed the official IPO …

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

How Twitter's Ad Business Went From Zero to $500 Million in Less Than Four Years — Just a few years ago, the people who ran Twitter — co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone — didn't even like talking about the notion of selling ads. — But Williams and Stone have moved on.

Discussion: Forbes, CNET, TechCrunch, NYT Bits, @sbermo and @pkafka

Gerry Shih / Reuters:

Twitter reveals rip-roaring growth, big losses ahead of IPO — (Reuters) - Twitter Inc, racing toward the largest Silicon Valley IPO since Facebook Inc's 2012 coming-out party, hopes to woo investors with rip-roaring revenue growth despite never having made a profit in the past three years.

Discussion: @mathewi

Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:

With the new Circa, news follows you — Today, mobile news startup Circa is launching a new version of its iPhone app, expanding to Android, and is subtly shifting course with its strategy. Circa 2. still delivers news stories broken up into snippets, but it is adding a new focus …

Discussion: Wired, AppNewser and Mashable

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Circa Releases Version 2 For iOS And Android, Adds Breaking News Notifications

Discussion: GigaOM, Groundswell, ZDNet, GeekWire, Fast Company, The Next Web, AllThingsD, @roblafave, Journalism.co.uk, VentureBeat and CNET

Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:

Amazon Readies Set-Top Box for Holidays — Streaming Video Device Would Rival Roku, Apple TV — Amazon.com Inc. is taking steps toward releasing a video-streaming device in time for the holiday selling season, according to people briefed on the company's plans.

Discussion: VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, Reuters, Pocket-lint, CNET, GeekWire, Deadline.com, GigaOM, The Verge, ZDNet, Yahoo! News, Los Angeles Times, Electronista, WebProNews, Engadget, App Advice and Digits

NationalJournal.com:

There's not just a shutdown. There's a blackout, and it makes journalism suffer. — The Government Shutdown Is Terrible for Transparency — Thursday morning's New York Times starts with a blockbuster story on Obamacare: “A sweeping national effort to extend health coverage to millions …

Discussion: @carr2n, @citizensnews, @freedomofpress and @jasonleopold

Press Gazette:

Two Mail on Sunday journalists suspended after approaching mourners at memorial for Miliband uncle — The Mail on Sunday has “unreservedly” apologised to Ed Miliband after an uninvited reporter went to a private memorial service he was attending for his late uncle.

Discussion: Guardian and @domponsford

Patrick Wintour / Guardian:
Mail on Sunday ‘sorry’ for gatecrashing Miliband family memorial service

Discussion: @malidaily, @tolpuddletim, @okwonga, @lewiep and BuzzFeed

Guardian:
Daily Mail-Ed Miliband row casts cloud over press regulation talks

Discussion: The Independent

bitly blog:

Bitly's new state map shows where people get their news online — Introducing the Bitly Media Map! — Last March, Bitly teamed up with Forbes to produce a data visualization which looks at how 15 media properties are being disproportionately consumed online on a state-by-state basis over the month of April.

Discussion: Poynter, Nieman Journalism Lab, Business Insider, @niemanlab, @bitly, @bde and Mashable, Thanks:@steverubel

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Scripps Free Ulive Internet Video Site Cuts Cable TV Cord — Programmer's online portal aggregates free Food Network, HGTV, Travel Channel and other channels with 70 original web series — No pay TV subscription required: Scripps Networks Interactive is going direct-to-consumer with the launch of Ulive …

Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Meredith and Scripps expand online video offerings with original shows

Discussion: @zimbalist and FishbowlNY

Julie Bosman / New York Times:

Novel by Michael Hastings to Be Published Posthumously — Michael Hastings, the journalist and author, had written a novel based on his own life before he was killed in a car crash in June. — That book, described as a fast, funny roman à clef about a young, eager magazine intern …

Discussion: The Wrap and The Huffington Post

Rebecca Theim / Poynter:

A year after daily publication ceased in Alabama and New Orleans, media market is ‘fractured’ — B.E. Mintz is attuned to the irony: After the 176-year-old New Orleans Times-Picayune ceased daily publication a year ago this week, “people took the position, 'I'm so angry that I have to read …

Stephanie Meyers / Inc.:

Why Are E-Book Subscription Start-Ups So Hot? — New players are piling into the e-book subscription biz. But wait—don't libraries already lend e-books for free? — Scribd, which first made a name for itself in 2007 as a “YouTube for documents” is jumping into the “Netflix for e-books” …

Jessica Weiss / Mediashift:

Inside NPR's ‘Mobile-First’ Strategy — When news designers tell Brian Boyer they want to produce big, detailed news projects online, he encourages them to think smaller. — Smaller screen, that is. — Boyer, the news apps editor at National Public Radio (NPR) in Washington, D.C. …

Discussion: @pbsidealab and @mediatwit, Thanks:@mediatwit

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Turner Nets Go Dark on Washington Post Co.'s Cable One, While Verizon FiOS Renews Pact — About 600,000 customers of Washington Post Co.-owned Cable One lost access to Turner Broadcasting System's cable channels Tuesday — which the programmer said is the first blackout in its history …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable and Radio & Television …