The following is a guest post from Brandon Mendelson, author of Social Media Is Bullshit, who contacted Evolver.fm editor Eliot Van Buskirk via Twitter. Mendelson has 770,681 Twitter followers. I was reading your post earlier about Twitter making money through iTunes, and I think you’re right. [ed. note: I am.] This is going to make…
We recently reported that Twitter appears to be is adding its own iTunes affiliate links to music previews on Twitter.com, as part of a way to make money by earning a five-percent commission from everything sold on iTunes via Twitter. However, the iTunes affiliate program could be just the tip of the iceberg. On Wednesday, Twitter…
People have been wondering how Twitter plans to make money. We may have just discovered one part of its revenue strategy, which might seem trifling at first, but which could add up quite a bit considering the sheer volume of links exchanged over Twitter. (Update: We proved that the same thing happens with links to…
