Twitter, the microblogging service, is gradually evolving its design on end user profile pages, and the CSS code may contain more clues.
At the moment, the advertising placed on the pages is ‘internal advertising’ for Twitter services like Search, and its Widgets, but in the future – well, they are short, unobtrusive and perhaps easily able to adapt themselves to fit your tweeting style?
TweetSense advertising? Makes perfect sense to me. What do you think?
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They must start advertising somewhere, somehow, to finally earn money. Advertising twitter-style: maximum of 140 characters
right, right you might be bloody well right!
(Yeah-yeah, you’re bloody well right, you know you’re right to say Me, I don’t care anyway;)
What’s going to happen to everyone who uses third party apps like TweetDeck or Twhirl to access Twitter? Will Twitter force ads on them in exchange for API access?
http://raxraxrax.com/2009/03/17/twitter-launches-ads-for-itself/
So, obvious as it may seem, where’s the evidence that this is going to be used for advertising? If there isn’t, isn’t your post title totally uncalled for?
Welcome to the blogging age, Joris. Sensationalist claims followed by a paragraph of lazy inductive reasoning are far more exciting than research and investigation.
I just noticed that today when I accessed Twitter on my webtop! It will be interesting to see what they use this space for. I like it now that it is unobtrusive, although even with an animated gif I don’t think it would be too bothersome.
It is advertising. Check the dictionary definition.
And thanks for recognising my lazy inductive reasoniing, but I have done a little research on this. And that research tells me this is the best headline for traffic.
Regards, David
It is advertising. Dictionary calls it this: –
advertise |ˈadvərˌtīz|
verb [ trans. ]
describe or draw attention to (a product, service, or event) in a public medium in order to promote sales or attendance : a billboard advertising beer | many rugs are advertised as machine washable | [ intrans. ] we had a chance to advertise on television.
• seek to fill (a vacancy) by putting a notice in a newspaper or other medium : for every job we advertise we get a hundred applicants | [ intrans. ] he advertised for dancers in the trade papers.
• make (a quality or fact) known : Meryl coughed briefly to advertise her presence.
• archaic notify (someone) of something : some prisoners advertised the French of this terrible danger.