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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. This has prompted many people to question whether advertising “in stream&# and on Twitter is a good thing or a bad thing. So what do we mean by in-stream advertising?

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

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In fact, I said as much in September 09 at a Twitter conference in LA on a panel that Guy Kawasaki was moderating. In a world in which you have strong client applications for consuming “multiproduct streams&# then they gain relative power to any individual stream (e.g. So Twitter is buying and building Twitter clients.

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

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I was attending a major industry conference in Barcelona at the height of the WAP excitement. I was on stage in front of several hundreds of conference attendees. So I attended a Red Herring conference in Laguna Niguel hanging out with Dharmesh Shah , James Citron , Rob Theis and others. Kleiner Perkins launches an iFund.

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