Pinbooster works on the sponsored content model like other social marketing platforms, most notably Sponsored Tweets and Ad.ly for Twitter.

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Sponsored Tweets seemed to catch on to what Max was up to after a couple of the requests went in.

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Twitter generates revenue through advertising, sponsored tweets, and other methods.

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This is remarkable because Twitter has been in the money-making game for only three years, primarily selling "sponsored tweets" to advertisers whose come-ons pop up in the message streams of the service's 200 million-plus active users.

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Sponsored tweets, however, are not quite it.

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Samsung has not responded to requests for comment, but regardless of whether they are paying Twitter to amplify the sponsored AP tweets or not, their high profile deal with the AP will likely encourage others to consider doing the same.

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