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New Twitter Business Model - Yeah, I called It…

Twitter announced their new business model last week. Basically, it’s a sponsored tweet model where advertisers can sponsor tweets that will be inserted when someone does a search on twitter. Eventually, sponsored tweets will be integrated into users normal feeds that they look at on a daily basis.

Interestingly, I guessed that this would be their model almost a year and a half ago. Want proof? Well, let’s take a look.

Initially, John Battelle posed the following question via twitter:

I, in turn (and probably many others) answered with the following response:

Wow, sometimes I  amaze myself. Wondering if twitter now owes me a rev share…