Like we said. Twitter introduces advertising.

By David Petherick
March 24, 2009

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Twitter, the microblogging service, is gradually evolving its design on end user profile pages, and as we predicted at The Next Web recently, is now running advertisements for external services.

Today, we spotted an ad for ExecTweets running on Twitter.

TweetSense, here we come…

As we said:

… in the future – well, they are short, unobtrusive and perhaps easily able to adapt themselves to fit your tweeting style?

UPDATE: Advert now also spotted for Twittervision:

Tags: advertising, tweetsense, twitter

lordmatt (Lord Matt)
Like we said. Twitter introduces advertising. - The Next Web http://tinyurl.com/c546n4

hellemans (hellemans)
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bjurn (Bjurn Kolbeek)
ohoh advertising on twitter is here.... http://tinyurl.com/c546n4

erikvisser (erik visser)
Reading: Like we said. Twitter introduces advertising.: http://is.gd/oG1i

Klou (Klou)
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Dubbel (Dennis Dekker)
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flatpedal (Ken Håkegård)
Twitter introduces advertising.: http://tinyurl.com/c546n4

andlor81 (Andreas Lorenz)
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Iain Haywood
Exec tweets is brilliant for Mashable. Twitter and Microsoft seem to be getting the thin end of the wedge somewhat. Why Twitter is backing a 3rd party enterprise feels like they are just giving away their business model. Anyone else doubt that Twitter will reach profitability on revenue alone?

Halfdeck (Halfdeck)
Folding tweets into blog comments is redundant. I click on a link that takes me to the blog post I'm reading. http://is.gd/oG1i

Boris
The new ads are cool. Wonder how long it will take before there are three ads in the sidebar....

jp ranschaert
Monetizing the service you offer is necessary to respect the community of users you have created, by ensuring they can go on using the service of platform. The question is "what business model". PPC is not the only model, though - speculations have already been heard about a so-called "freemium" model for Twitter; third party paying models have also proved their worth. Livertising.vox.com reports an interesting ongoing discussion on Techcrunch.

Erik Visser
I wonder how the adverising model will hold on all those apps that are created using the api.
And some of them use an advertising model too. Then we will have two ad models colliding. Not particular userfriendly.

sysk (sysk)
Twitter introduces advertising.: http://tinyurl.com/c546n4

Halfdeck
According to this post on SitePro News by Kalena Jordan, "Twitter has gone into partnership with Microsoft and John Battelle’s advertising company Federated Media to create ExecTweets."

http://www.sitepronews.com/2009/03/24/i-told-yo...

intercon (intercon)
Twitter Advertising - necessary evil or "for the birds"? Due to twitter's popularity and growth it will probably thrive http://is.gd/oG1i

redfactory (Patrick Cohen)
here we go, twitter introduces ads: http://tinyurl.com/c546n4

photo sharing
Good stuff. I hope they make some cash out of it :)

lordmattborg (lordmattborg)
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