Twitter will gain by helping retailers promote

According to foreign media reports, Twitter is currently considering the use of other channels to increase their own income. In the near future, retailers will be allowed to charge a fee for selling their products through a special authorized Twitter account.

The service may be similar to the luxury shopping website Gilt Groupe, E-commerce website woot.com, Amazon Gold Box offers, and Dell's Twitter promotion program. In fact, many retailers have been using Twitter to promote their products, and now Twitter wants to make this part of the business more powerful, at least to be able to come with a lot of revenue.

The above news first appeared on the Technology blog site ReadWriteWeb, Twitter is noncommittal. "We will release the relevant information at the right time, which is likely to be scheduled in the next few weeks," said Sean Garrett, a Twitter public relations director, in an interview with reporters Garrett. ”

Up to now, Twitter's revenue generation model is mainly as follows:

1. Provide customized service for big corporate brands such as Microsoft.

2. Leasing network traffic to big businesses like Microsoft and Google.

3. Advertise promoted tweets in Google AdWords.

4. Promote promoted trends ads, allowing advertisers to put ads next to Twitter's current theme.