Monday, March 23, 2009
Looky Here! Actual Revenue for Twitter, Courtesy of Microsoft.
Finally. Here comes Twitter’s first real foray into advertising, courtesy of Microsoft’s marketing budget. And don’t worry, Twitter users: You won’t be getting come-ons for Vista in your Twitterstream. Not yet, at least. The program that Twitter has rolled out today–something called ExecTweets–is a fairly cautious step into marketing, and that is certainly by design. But it does give a you a good sense of what Twitter thinks it can do with its buzzy, fast-growing and almost revenue-free product.
