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Twitter takes the Microsoft shilling

Needs to make money somehow
Wed Mar 25 2009, 16:04

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WIBBLESOME HOME OF SMALL UTTERANCES, TWITTER  has taken Microsoft money to launch a web site called ExecTweets.com

The idea is to allow bosses of big companies to burble on about stuff to plebs in libraries who don't own their own PCs.

The Wall Street Journal reckons the site is an example of how Twitter might make money. Not much mind - we suggest - though Microsoft wouldn't say what it coughed up to have its logo on the site pages.

A quick scan of these shows self-publicising beardie Richard Branson is high up on the list of burbling, self-important capitalists.

If that doesn't put you off, click here. µ

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