Twitter starts to accept advertisers

It’s really kind of hard to believe when you stop and think about how quickly Twitter has blossomed into such a household name. It seems as though the microblogging service has been around forever, but the fact is that it came into existence just four years ago.

Though it is valued at $1 billion at this point, Twitter had no revenue center until it recently began to provide Google with its real time search results. But it has now been announced that Twitter is going to start running sponsored messages that they are calling “Promoted Tweets.” For now, these will only show up in searches for keywords that the advertisers will target.

With typical Twitter brevity, company co-founder Biz Stone had this to say about the move: “It’s non-traditional, it’s easy, and it makes a ton of sense for Twitter.”

This is very interesting because they obviously had to start generating revenue at some point, but the founders couldn’t identify the right way to do it for these four years. They said that they wanted to concentrate on building participation and not alienating users with monetization efforts. We’ll see if this idea does the trick. You can read more about the monetization of Twitter by clicking this link:

Twitter Now Selling Ads