All of us know Internet.
We are able to access them and the information is Indexed by Search Engines.
We can access the information by relevant queries.
This is a part of World Wide Web, www.
There is another side to the world wide web where you can not normally access the information , but is still a part of the world wide web.
This is called the Deepnet, the Invisible Web, the Undernet or the hidden Web.
While idiots like me believe in the objectivity of social media and takes pleasure in writing to be 'heard' how do the people who sustain this illusion make money.,for these are not altruistic gems.
This is how twitter makes it money through you and me.
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Twitter also sells data. It will generate about $583 million this year. Twitter is expected to generate a little less than $1 billion in 2014, according to eMarketer.
Most of Twitter's revenue comes from three types of ads, although it plans to have a more robust advertising offering next year.
The New York Times' Vindu Goel gives a good rundown of those three money-making ad products:
Promoted tweets: Advertisers pay to have brief messages show up in users' stream of Twitter messages. They can use keyword targeting to reach specific users. Advertisers can also use a little bit of demographic targeting, although Twitter doesn't know as much about its users as Facebook does. Twitter gets paid when users engage with the promoted tweets (when they favorite, comment on, or retweet the ad).
Promoted trends: Twitter lists which topics are being talked about most on its platform. The trends vary by location, so Twitter's list of topics in the US might not be the same as the list in England, for example. Advertisers can pay to have a topic of their choice listed too. A promoted trend costs roughly $200,000 for a day of exposure on all US Twitter accounts, the New York Times reports.
Promoted accounts: If a brand wants more Twitter followers, it can pay to have its account recommended to Twitter users.
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