The Associated Press starts selling access to its Twitter feed; Samsung is first customer

January 7, 2013 12:01 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

The Associated Press is running a sponsored tweets campaign. But the news company is not paying Twitter any money, and the sponsored tweets are not the kind of sponsored tweets that we're used to.

Twitter starts rolling out promoted Tweets

September 13, 2011 1:21 PM Matthew Lynley
Matthew Lynley

Twitter has started rolling out “promoted Tweets,” which Twitter users will see regardless of who they follow, the company announced Tuesday afternoon.

“Promoted Tweets are entering a new phase,” the company said in a statement. “We’re expanding testing in the …

Twitter confirms investment from Facebook, Zynga investor DST

August 1, 2011 10:07 AM Matthew Lynley
Matthew Lynley

Twitter today confirmed that it is raising a large funding round from Russia’s DST, the investment company that has backed Facebook, Groupon and Zynga.

“Now we have an opportunity to expand Twitter’s reach with a significant round of funding led …