Twitter has been carefully rolling out its Promoted Tweets service, which it first announced in April at its Chirp conference. Now these advertisements are being included in some users' timelines on Twitter application HootSuite, according to both companies. Twitter already added Promoted Tweets to its searches.
The API economy continues to grow but one impediment to this growth is the friction involved when trying to pay for API access. Smoothing this friction may require a change in the handling of API monetization, something the open-source API Network looks to solve through the use of cryptocurrency.