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Links on Twitter: Most expensive Google keyword, The Economist’s video strategy, news delivered as poetry

By Twitter Oct. 16, 2009, 5:16 p.m.

At $99.44 per click, can you guess the most expensive search term in Google AdWords? http://tr.im/C0gw »

Hah. The Economist, famous for not identifying authors, does same with video: reporters speak off-camera http://tr.im/C0UN »

“Whose bright idea was it that news should be delivered in prose, anyway?” http://tr.im/C353 »

POSTED Oct. 16, 2009, 5:16 p.m.

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