APs Twitter to Begin Displaying Sponsored Tweets

The Associated Press is the latest news organization to experiment with trying to make money from Twitter by using its feed to advertise for other companies.

The AP announced Monday that it will share sponsored tweets from Samsung throughout this week for the International CES taking place in Las Vegas. The news service will let Samsung post two tweets per day to the AP's Twitter account, which has more than 1.5 million users, and each of these tweets will be labeled "SPONSORED TWEETS."

This marks the first time that the AP has sold advertising on its Twitter feed, and the company says it spent months developing guidelines to pave the way for this and other new media business models.…
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