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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 6:03 AM | Permalink

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