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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOh great.....Twitter is now serving ads.
Starting today Twitter will begin experimenting with commerce. Its the latest effort to expand the atomic unit of a tweet beyond 140 characters. The implementation is straightforward: a big "Buy" button that will appear alongside an image of the item for sale.
Give Twitter your billing and shipping info once and you can make one-click purchases from inside a tweet if youre logged into the app or web service. The big question on Wall Streets mind is whether this might provide the company a meaningful secondary stream of revenue alongside advertising. The more interesting question for the average consumer is if the real-time nature of Twitter might produce some interesting new forms of business we havent seen yet
.http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/8/6120079/twitter-commerce-buy-button
Give Twitter your billing and shipping info once and you can make one-click purchases from inside a tweet if youre logged into the app or web service. The big question on Wall Streets mind is whether this might provide the company a meaningful secondary stream of revenue alongside advertising. The more interesting question for the average consumer is if the real-time nature of Twitter might produce some interesting new forms of business we havent seen yet
Yeah, I am just dying to turn a rapid read Twitter experience into a catalog reading experience.
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Oh great.....Twitter is now serving ads. (Original Post)
dixiegrrrrl
Sep 2014
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PDittie
(8,322 posts)1. Had to happen.
One of the world's most popular -- all but indispensible now for breaking news -- online places and no monetization.
yuiyoshida
(41,832 posts)2. They already had
ads posted as messages. Most of the time, you can just hit the "dismiss" button and it goes away but its still a bother every time I log on. I want tweets from those I am following, not some false tweet claiming someone bought a new car...and it was a Volkswagen advertisement.
PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)3. I'm on twitter...
@riogreyhound ......My twitter name is Violet Crumble. I'll follow you
yuiyoshida
(41,832 posts)4. YAY Violet!
I will add you, I have my twitter addy on all my postings!