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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
Technology
Asharq Al-Awsat

Twitter Aims to Diversify Beyond Advertising, But Can it Be Done?

FILE - This April 26, 2017, file photo shows the Twitter app icon on a mobile phone in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Is it a pipe dream or possibility? Elon Musk wants to diversify Twitter's revenue stream beyond advertising, a feat none of the biggest social networks have yet pulled off.

Something of a gold standard, social media ads can be fine-tuned and tailored to individual users on a mass scale, and have been particularly lucrative for Meta's Facebook and Instagram, as well as Google, AFP said.

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