Filipino Expats Blog in Thailand

This article which I read from The Nation, one of the English newspapers in Thailand, is a clear hint of what is to come from this 4 year old technology. I remember about a couple years back when I first tried to use Twitter, I honestly never thought that such a light program could grow this popular and useful where others almost couldn’t spend a day without a tweet.

Infact, when things had started to pick up and I tried to re-register, I was surprise that my email add was already in their database. The downside is, I can’t seem to remember my personal Twitter account ;) (But for FilipinosInThailand.com here it is http://www.twitter.com/filinthai. Go ahead, click the link and follow our Tweets.)

Anyway, here is the Twitter article that I was talking about.

Twitter unveils advertising plan

Twitter unveiled a plan Tuesday to use advertising to turn its massive popularity into cash.

Biz Stone, one of the three co-founders of the micro-blogging service, provided details of the long-awaited revenue-generating plan for the San Francisco-based startup in a post on the Twitter blog.

Stone said the advertising service, called “Promoted Tweets,” will allow businesses and organizations to highlight their 140-character-or-less messages known as “tweets” to a wider group of users.

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