Hello Twitter World – Twitter Monetizing – Twitter IS Advertising
Twitter, the micro blogging and social networking platform, started a thoughtful approach to monetization!
Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, posted information on Twitter’s new advertising service: “Promoted Tweets”.
Yes, it was posted on their Twitter Blog.
As per the blog post, Promoted Tweets will be the promotional messages that brands can post on Twitter.
These 140 character twitter messages will be labelled as ‘promoted’ but look like normal tweets posted by other users on the site.
Users will be able to reply, forward, retweet and select these messages as favourites.
The first phase of the new Promoted Tweets platform starts with a handful of innovative twitter advertising partners that include Best Buy, Bravo, Red Bull, Sony Pictures, Starbucks, and Virgin America.
I personally like Twitter Commercial Ads FREE (just let the users promote their products in their tweets).
What do YOU think?
Please give YOUR comments below (and get a back link!).
Fred Lotgering
LotCon Biz Solutions
Twitter Marketing Products.
April 16th, 2010 at 03:01
I like the idea. Twitter has to somehow control advertising, and this is a logical way to do it. Free social sites like Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook all face the same issue. At one point in time they have to figure out how to control the ads.
As long as their ads aren’t shown every second post or something like that, then I’m fine with them.
April 16th, 2010 at 23:47
I would agree with Joel. Eventually you know twitter is going to have to make some money somehow. And the best way seems to be with ads. I also just don’t want them popping up all the time through out the posts.
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April 17th, 2010 at 00:24
Andre, time will learn how often they many “Promoted Tweet” need to appear to make them some money…
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April 19th, 2010 at 19:49
I think Twitter doing ads is ok as long as they are marked as ads and people can opt out