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Looky Here! Actual Revenue for Twitter, Courtesy of Microsoft.

in Media on March 23, 2009 at 12:41 pm PT

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.
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Another Twitter App Funded: TweetDeck Raises an Angel Round. Next Up: A Business Plan

in Media on January 16, 2009 at 4:54 am PT

Yes, you can still get someone to invest in a Web start-up with zero revenue. It helps if you can insert the word “Twitter” into your pitch, though. Meet TweetDeck, a one-man outfit that makes free software that organizes your Twitter stream.