n Wednesday, the developer community will be heading to San Francisco for Chirp, Twitter's new developer conference. But software writers are beginning to wonder whether they still have a role to play in the website's future.
The blogging site, founded in 2006, will carry “promoted tweets” from advertisers including Best Buy Inc. and Starbucks Inc., according to a blog post from the company today. At the outset, the ads will appear at the top of search pages.
Social-media sites including Twitter have been reluctant to inundate pages with ads, highlighting the challenges of wringing sales from millions of people who spend time interacting with others online.
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they have streamlined the process of sharing photos through the microblogging site; they've made it easy for people to manage and keep track of multiple Twitter accounts through their desktop or mobile phone; and have made it possible to search Twitter for trending topics, create and share lists of interesting Twitter users, and even get instant answers to questions.
While Twitter and Palo Alto, California-based Facebook are gaining users, some rivals are struggling. AOL Inc. said last week it is evaluating the sale or shutdown of social-networking site Bebo, less than two years after spending $850 million to buy the business.
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Tuesday, 13 April 2010
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