The answer to this question come from a dynamic infographics from WorldPayZinc (a mobile payments company) that show in a very appealing and smart way how much does a tech giant (check your favorite) does revenues and profits in a certain amout of time.
I stopped the watch at 1 second: you can see above the results.
Sony, HP and Amazon are among the most profitable ever; on the other side, Tweeting (as we all love to do) does seem to need a lot more time to get to a valuable result.
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