Twitter's Mobile Ads Begin to Click
Majority of Revenue on Social Network Comes from Phones; One Advertiser Calls Results Staggering
By SHIRA OVIDE June 28, 2012
Twitter Inc. is showing early signs of success selling advertising on mobile devices, an area that is bedeviling Internet companies including Facebook Inc. and Google Inc.
On most days, Twitter is now generating the majority of its revenue from ads shown to its users on mobile gadgets, rather than from ads on Twitter.com, company executives said. One key reason: People who see a Twitter ad on their phones are more likely to click or interact with it in some way, which is how Twitter gets paid for advertisements.
The San Francisco company has only been offering mobile ads in earnest since April, and some companies buying Twitter ads said they haven't kept tabs on the effectiveness of their campaigns on mobile devices.
But P.F. Chang's China Bistro Inc. is among the advertisers that say they were surprised at how many people are clicking on Twitter mobile ads.
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