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How Twitter Makes Money

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.

Blogs Influential Than Tweets, Study-Naturally

A Study reveals that Blogs are more influential tha Tweets and Social Media.

I understand that.

I am of the view that blogs are more detailed, reasoned and informative than Tweets.

Tweets are generally your opinion or impressions to a story or News.

Here you do not the luxury of reasoning out your views.

Tweets and Social media Communications are essentially a communication between a Group or Groups, while blogs target a larger audience.

In Social Media like Facebook, you first express your interest, likes to make people find you.

In Blogs, you leave the material and let the Reader take find you.

Being better reasoned out pieces Blogs tend to have better credibility.

Attention Span is more for a Blog.

I have assumed, in this exercise that Tweets,Social Media Messages, to be good ones.

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