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This Space for Rent: Overheard on Twitter #6

Posted on 18 April 2008 (4)

Andrew Baron tried selling his account on eBay this week. The eBay auction has closed, but you can still see the bidding history here, as it went as high as $1,550.

Publicity stunt? Yes. Original? Yes. The real story here was that it received lots of exposure.
Speaking of exposure, is a limited commercialization of [...]

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The Delicate Balancing Act Of Monetizing Twitter

Posted on 17 April 2008 (3)

Twitter has rapidly become one of those social media applications that people can’t live without. Everyone may say what a waste of time Twitter is but truth be told, they really love using it (me being one of those people).
But the people who run Twitter have to eat and they have to [...]

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