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Welcome to the first Twitter Tuesday of March! There's plenty to talk about this week, including the big news that Twitter is finally ready to slip a little advertising into your stream. If you've been wondering when the Big T was going to start chasing a profit, you're about to get an answer. We'll talk about that, plus new apps, Twitter tools and rumors in this edition of Twitter Tuesday.
Let's do it!
Okay, let's get right to the juicy stuff: Twitter's long-awaited business model is finally going to kick in soon, according to Twitter's head of project management and monetization (say that title ten times fast!) Anamitra Banerji. Twitter's plan for ads isn't to slap them obnoxiously on the main page, though. Instead, they're going the Google route, and placing the ads within search results.
That should provide enough ad views and clickthroughs to make Twitter some dough, while keeping the ads at least somewhat relevant to users. But will they be UGLY? We don't know yet, although Techcrunch pondered some possible design options. One thing is certain, though: people will be royally cheesed off if the ads look like regular tweets. Customers hate feeling like someone's trying to trick them (the customer writing this column sure does, anyway).
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Twitter Tuesday - this week's Twitter news, apps and more originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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