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Twitter says NO to ad revenue

When the whole world is moving towards putting ads and making revenues, Twitter is looking for something different - how to monetize without ads.

Twitter believes that putting ad next to their 140 character messages might irritate users. Also, running an AD business is a big venture.

 

Twitter is exploring corporate tie-ups for paid services. In UK, it has reportedly struck a deal with Vodafone for an add-on service that provides directory of commerical accounts, that can be used to verify the legitimacy of accounts.

Twitter is looking for ideas.. 

 

Posted by Sankara Krishnan on May 20, 2009 06:03 AM |

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