Advertisements on Twitter

The American micro blog service Twitter started Tuesday with inserting advertisements on the site. The advertisements become visible by search tasks of the user, reported the American business paper The Wall Street Journal.

In the first instance Twitter ensnared ten advertisers, including Starbucks en Best Buy. Between two and ten percent of the users of Twitter will be seeing the advertisements. That number will increase the next days, thus the concern.

This step has to lead to the profitability of Twitter. There are millions of people who disperse tweets, messages with a maximum of 140 signs daily, but that did not produce much sales. The first revenues came in recently out of agreements with Google and Microsoft about the delivering of tweets on the search engines of that companies.