In another move aimed at boosting the popular microblogging website’s revenue, Twitter announced that iOS and Android device users will start seeing Promoted Tweets in their timelines. Promoted Tweets are sponsored messages (aka advertisements) that were introduced two years ago. The mobile move stems from the increasingly large segment of Twitter users that access the service via mobile devices. According to Twitter, Promoted Tweets will only appear once in a mobile device’s timeline, and will only be displayed when relevant to the user.

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- New and Improved iPad - Mobile App Watch - Startups to Watch - Lost in Translation - Bing's Organic Phase  - Acquisitions and Milestones  - It's About Time(line)  - OpenStack Opens Up - A Patented Conflict - Mind Games  - Girl Power - The Hacker Way