[gfodor]

This is so unbelievably backwards. If there are conversations actively going on inside of Twitter or any organization about if it is a wise move to start making money, they seemingly have missed the point of running a business.

At the end of the day if there is some magic switch Twitter can turn to start generating revenue, they'd be fools to not turn it on. Say what you will about ridiculous valuations, but its a much stronger negotiation card to have in your deck at acquisition time if you are actually you know, generating money, and don't need to sell the company because you will run out of cash otherwise. Until then, Twitter runs the risk of the world basically realizing (or at least thinking) the emperor has no clothes and running out of cash before getting bought by someone still drinking the kool aide.

[dolinsky]

pre-revenue stream

  Here's a shiny black box that can potentially solve all the worlds problems......
  Our growth is tremendous, so get in now while the escalator flies to the moon!

turn on revenue stream and the revenue plateaus at a negative cash-flow position

  Here's a shiny black box that ain't makin' us money. Who wants to buy it?

It's not too difficult to understand why a company with tremendous (most of us here would say overhyped) growth is afraid of generating revenue that doesn't come close to matching the hype (I mean growth).