Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Twitter Ads- Promoted Tweets

After seeing the post below about the appearances of ads on Twitter, I did a little research. We can definitely expect in the future to see Twitter become more commercialized. Promoted Tweets, and its affiliates will "purchase" words through the network. As a result, whenever a user searches a specific word on Twitter, the company's ad that owns the said word will then appear. It seems a little tricky, but I have no doubt that this will be effective for Twitter. Here's more on Promoted Tweets:

1 comment:

  1. thanks for sharing the URL, wish we could embed the video. And it does go back to the fundamental problem of how to turn a profit. On the search part of the plan, it very much resembles how Google works. As for getting sponsored tweets in our stream, well I do get an occasional text message ad from Sprint, so I guess I can live with it.

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