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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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And if even 1% of users click on the ads because they’re relevant rather than on the organic search it’s a HUGE business (as you know). People mistook the fact that these text advertisements worked in Google to say they would work in social networks. If we continue our success we will have strong competition.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. Page 3: Competition. And covered we did. Page 4: Business Model.