Comments on: Twitter Finally Monetizes

By: Some ‘Twitter definitions’ are sponsored | Socialmedia.biz

Some ‘Twitter definitions’ are sponsored | Socialmedia.biz — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:10:55 +0000

[...] There has been so much conjecture as to how Twitter will start monetizing. Well, it looks like there have been a few baby steps in the form of “sponsored definitions” that cycle through right above the Home link on the navigation bar. It is very subtle and I didn’t notice it myself until today (Seth Simonds has been talking about this since June 23rd). [...]

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Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:26:36 +0000

[...] Check out the Sethsimonds blog . Share and Enjoy: [...]

By: Ads Spotted on Twitter.com – Did You Notice? | eMediaOne

Ads Spotted on Twitter.com – Did You Notice? | eMediaOne — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:46:43 +0000

[...] been live for about a week now and no one but a few small, alert blogs has written about them. (Seth Simonds in particular caught a really interesting international angle on the story.) It was big news three [...]

By: Finally Arrived : Ads On Twitter.com | TechDusts

Finally Arrived : Ads On Twitter.com | TechDusts — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:20:09 +0000

[...] So just the ads in the sidebars gives Twitter any sort of substantial income? Seth Simonds in hisblog mentioned that you can see the image ads in Twitter Japan by changing your language preference [...]

By: Twitter advertising sponsored definition links | The Tech News Blog

Twitter advertising sponsored definition links | The Tech News Blog — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:38:53 +0000

[...] posting this, I received a message from Seth Simonds via Twitter about a post on his blog, which shows Twitter is already delivering banner ads to Japanese language users, see right. For the [...]

By: Ads Spotted on Twitter.com - Did You Notice? | UpOff.com

Ads Spotted on Twitter.com - Did You Notice? | UpOff.com — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:56:00 +0000

By: Rod_Uding

Rod_Uding — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:57:22 +0000

After pondering the pricing for a while, I believe Twitter should go a route similar to Fark.com. Fark only charges $5 a month while offering the minimal upfront "teaser". Fark still makes a good amount of money using this business model, perhaps Twitter could come up with something like 5 free tweets a day and a pay per tweet after that if you did not want to do the $X per month. Whatever Twitter does to get money, it should be a very basic
cost structure.

By: simoncmason

simoncmason — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:53:17 +0000

I think there are a few ways twitter can start making money without annoying their user base but that would deliver more value to advertisers. Firstly paid search results – as long as they limited it 2 or 3 “sponsored tweets” at the top of any search result, secondly premium accounts based on following counts or API access or tweets per day (this may have the fringe benefit of cutting down tweet spam, mass following etc) and thirdly monetizing their data.

I hope twitter does start to make some money soon as it would a real loss to a lot of us if it died.

By: sethsimonds

sethsimonds — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:03:42 +0000

You have so much heart, Matt! =)

As far as I'm concerned, if Twitter is able to streamline their anti-spam efforts, a few sponsored tweets in my stream won't bother me one bit.

Glad you got the rant out. I'm usually through my weekly one by about 2am on a Monday morning. I'm ranty though. =)

By: sethsimonds

sethsimonds — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:01:48 +0000

You can run Tumblr on a subdomain as well. Not as easy to figure out adspace with the Tumblr themes though.

http://desertisland.sethsimonds.com is where I've started putting random stuff that simply doesn't belong here. =)