The Twitter trials continue with this latest attempt seen over the weekend. On the right hand side of the homepage is a long list of trending topics, which will take you to the stream of relevant content.
This list is a logical use of space and could offer a powerful opportunity to slip a couple of paid links in which would be a great step towards monetisation.
However as the increasing majority of users actively tweet on software based API’s the potential audience for this homepage would be significantly smaller than the total base.
Another good trial though.
3 reasons why search is the Twitter jackpot :: Jamie Riddell
on May 5th, 2009
@ 2:09 pm:
[...] is rolling out new features on its homepage, which I covered in previous posts (here & here) but the missing link, I suggested, was the fact that most Twitter activity is on API based [...]