Plans are confirmed that Twitter will be launching it's ad platform soon. Seth Goldstein and Anamitra Banerji have both commented and although there is no confirmed date it is expected in the next month or so.
Personally I don't see how this will work. Most people don't actually go to Twitter.com and I can't see people putting up with ads within their tweets. I've never really thought that Twitter was a monetisable platform and I'll be interested to see how they roll this out and how the Twittersphere reacts to it. It may well not be positive and who knows Buzz might even benefit from it!
Read more:
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=122950
http://www.penn-olson.com/2010/02/24/ads-coming-on-twitter-soon/
http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2010/02/23/twitters-advertising-platform-launch-month/
Here's an article from E-Consultancy explaining three ways to cash in on twitter ads
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