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Roundup: Cyberdefense SNAFU, Twitter ad scarcity, what’s a jailbreak?
VentureBeat —
... Hands up if you’ve seen an ad on Twitter — Read/Write Web editor Marshall Kirkpatrick (don’t confuse him with VentureBeat’s Matt Marshall) reports that he’s only seen two real ads in Twitter’s ad space in the upper right corner of Twitter.com user pages. The rest are vague “sponsored definitions” links that Kirkpatrick suspects are too cheap to keep Twitter in business. ...
Twitter Goes Ad-Supported, Surprising No One
Technology Liberation Front —
... ReadWriteWeb notes that, after much speculation as to how Twitter would find a business model to support its burgeoning social network, the red-hot start-up is now, finally, showing ads. This anti-climax is almost like Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of the not-so-subtly-named QUEEN, finally revealing that he was gay in 1989: Everybody saw it coming but wondered what took so long! ...
Twitter Loses Revenue Virginity
Gawker: valleywag —
There was something innocent and pure about Twitter's total lack of income. But don't worry, the microblogging startup's first advertisements are sufficiently adorable.
Twitter has taken to selling off the "concepts" it defines under user profiles. Early customers include such diverse customers as a website about Twitter and a website about Twitter:
If the ads are a bit twee, well, Twitter's take probably is, too. But the company is determined its ads must be innovative, and revolution is never ...
Twitter Loses Revenue Virginity
Valleywag —
There was something innocent and pure about Twitter's total lack of income. But don't worry, the microblogging startup's first advertisements are sufficiently adorable.
Twitter has taken to selling off the "concepts" it defines under user profiles. Early customers include such diverse customers as a website about Twitter and a website about Twitter:
If the ads are a bit twee, well, Twitter's take probably is, too. But the company is determined its ads must be innovative, and revolution is never ...
Twitter Gets Real Ads
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim —
... they were, in fact, ads—they were only definitions, just like you get free from dictionaries.
Then, the boxes began carrying info on Twitter apps. Rather than paying for their placement, the featured apps were actually approached by Twitter. The apps being advertised didn’t pay to get there, so despite the fact that they were still called “sponsored definitions,” they weren’t ads. Nope, no way, nuh uh.
Well, now they are, apparently. Read Write Web reports that two of the “sponsored definitions,” for Cinema Tweets ...
Twitter Definitions Become Sponsored
WebProNews Feed —
... were, in fact, ads—they were only definitions, just like you get free from dictionaries.
Then, the boxes began carrying info on Twitter apps. Rather than paying for their placement, the featured apps were actually approached by Twitter. The apps being advertised didn’t pay to get there, so despite the fact that they were still called “sponsored definitions,” they weren’t ads. Nope, no way, nuh uh.
Well, now they are, apparently. Read Write Web reports that two of the “sponsored definitions,” for Cinema Tweets ...
Breaking: New more prominent Twitter Ads Spotted
The Next Web —
... Previous to this there had been reports of ads appearing the twitter.com sidebar, but this is without question the most prominent ad placement yet. ...
Twitter Goes Ad-Supported, Surprising No One
The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog —
... ReadWriteWeb notes that, after much speculation as to how Twitter would find a business model to support its burgeoning social network, the red-hot start-up is now, finally, showing ads. This anti-climax is almost like Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of the not-so-subtly-named QUEEN, finally revealing that he was gay in 1989: Everybody saw it coming but wondered what took so long! ...
