11 a.m. Roundup: Twitter Ads Imminent | Lack of Tweeting a Crime | AP Layoffs Hit Berkeley Bureau
By Jason Turbow on Nov 23, 2009 02:00 PM
Twitter's now talking about its upcoming advertising plans. Bloomberg reports COO Dick Costolo's announcement last week that an ad business -- details as yet unreleased -- that will kick off in early 2010. "We want to do something that's organic and in the flow of the way people already use Twitter -- and not, 'Here's the tweets and here are the ads,' " he said in the report. TechCrunch quotes Costolo as saying, "It will be fascinating. Non-traditional. And people will love it… It's going to be really cool."
San Francisco Peninsula Press Club reports that AP laid off 24-year veteran reporter Michelle Locke, leading in the short term to it running an un-bylined story about UC Berkeley student demonstrations that would have otherwise fallen to Locke and the shuttered Berkeley bureau. Gawker has compiled a list of eliminated positions.
