Tag: PROMOTEDTWEETS

Twitter is pushing forward with the next step of its money-making ploy. So far, 'promoted tweets' have been limited to appearing at the top of search results on Twitter.com -- but the company is now beginning a trial program where it injects these promoted messages directly into users' timelines. Don't expect to see your stream of updates overflowing with advertisement just yet, though. Early ...

After having already launched 'Promoted Tweets' and 'Promoted Trends,' Twitter is now launching an additional advertising feature known as 'Promoted Accounts.' As the site explains on its blog, the new 'Promoted Accounts' service will seamlessly blend in with the site's 'Suggestions for You' feature, which recommends accounts that users might want to follow, based on their Twitter network. ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Netflix has already bolstered its streaming catalog with the premium network Starz Play service, and a new deal with Relativity Media, which should continue to pressure movie channels like HBO and Showtime, now gives Netflix broadcasting rights to a growing library of recently released content. The first Relativity titles to ...

Twitter has effectively killed an entire market for Twitter ads today by announcing that all in-stream third party advertising is being banned with the launch of its own Promoted Tweets platform. Services that update users' Twitter status with advertisements, such as ad.ly, PayPerTweet and the newly launched TweetUp, are hereby banished. As the company put it in an update on the official Twitter ...