Video: Twitter's 140 Second Tour Of Promoted Tweets

Monday, April 19th, 2010

MG Siegler is a general partner at CrunchFund and a columnist for TechCrunch, where he has been writing since 2009. His focus is on Apple. Prior to TechCrunch, MG covered various technology beats for VentureBeat. Originally from Ohio, MG attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. He’s previously lived in Los Angeles where he worked in Hollywood and in... → Learn More

A week ago, Twitter unveiled its long-awaited ad platform to the world: Promoted Tweets. While it was a focal point of last week’s Chirp conference in San Francisco, there still seem to be some questions as to how exactly it works. So Twitter has made a short (but slow) video tutorial on the feature.

Posted a few days ago, the video appears at the top of one of Twitter’s FAQ pages for the new feature. But rather than being at the top of the user FAQ (which most people will presumably read), it’s at the top of the business FAQ. So we’ll go ahead and embed it below.

In the video, a brand, HashtagTees, creates a promoted tweet to display during a concert in California. On the advertiser side of things, a company selects a number of keywords they hope to use to trigger their promoted tweet, and then select the tweets to show — seems straightforward enough. These tweets then show up at the top of the results for those search terms, with a small, yellow highlighted area to show that it’s a promoted tweet.

Company: Twitter
Website: twitter.com
Funding: $1.16B

Twitter, founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 (launched publicly in July 2006), is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to post their latest updates. An update is limited by 140 characters and can be posted through three methods: web form, text message, or instant message. The company has been busy adding features to the product like Gmail import and search. They recently launched a new site section called “Explore” for...

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