Twitter’s Internal Promo Units Spark Speculation about Ad-Supported Model

Battelle at Searchblog tells us to pay attention to what Twitter is promoting — its search engine:

Twitter's internal promo units

Arrington at TechCrunch says this an early test for the real ads that will follow:

“The advertisements currently only link internally to Twitter Search or the Twitter Widget. But it isn’t much of a stretch to assume they’re testing the units for possible third party advertisements in the future. Twitter Japan, which launched a year ago, has included display ads from the beginning.”

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