Twitter Launching Promoted Tweets

Like with many social platforms, many have wondered how these sites and services can capitalize monetarily. Twitter has announced the launch of its new campaign which it hopes will bring in more revenue—promoted tweets. How will promoted tweets work? Adage reports, “Twitter’s version of keyword ads will appear only on searches conducted on its website; [...]

Real-Time Blog Search Comes to WordPress

It seems as though blogs have been taking a backseat to the instant updates of platforms like microblogs. However, blogs are fighting back and WordPress is leading the way. According to reports from sources such as VentureBeat, WordPress has enabled a feature that allows users to search for blog posts as soon as they are [...]

Social Cord Makes Monetization of Twitter Easier

While there have been rumors of premium accounts, ads and other ideas that could help monetize Twitter, Social Cord is making it easier for businesses, artists and any user to earn some money through tweeting. Social Cord is a new service that allows users to create premium content for their followers to purchase. Users wanting [...]

Real-Time Search Startups Gaining Traction

As microblogging sites like Twitter are being used for reporting news stories, many companies have taken advantage, creating real-time search engines. The advantage is also in the fact that Google has pointed out its inability to capture real-time information as a weakness. Although Twitter’s search engine gives instant results based on time of update, other [...]