Promoted Tweets

After years of enormous popularity and no real revenue stream, Twitter has finally come up with a way to profit from its success.

Twitter's new advertising platform will allow advertisers to buy links to their ads, called "Promoted Tweets," that will show up when users search for keywords. The plan is to have Promoted Tweets posted in line with normal Tweets, based on their relevancy to the keywords the user enters.

Best Buy, Virgin America, Starbucks, and Bravo have all already agreed to run ads.

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Google Earth for Android now on Verizon's DROID

According to Google Earth's blog, a month after the Android launch of Google Earth, Verizon's DROID now has the same capabilities available. Google Earth for Android has several topographic and geographic features, with everything from 3-D imagery and terrain mapping to Local Business Searches, and more.

Lawyers win Yelp Lawsuit

Two law firms filing a class-action lawsuit against local business review site Yelp have won their case, resulting in changes to the popular social destination's practices. Yelp maintains its innocence, insisting that uninformed businesses and onlookers don't understand how their site works. Despite their steadfast commitment, Yelp must comply to modifications including the disabling of the favorite review feature, as well as allowing users to see reviews previously removed by Yelp's automated review filter.

New Google UI with Location Auto-Detect

Since late last year, Google has been testing a new user interface (UI) which includes a feature that auto-detects a user's location and lists it under the search box. Although we've already seen Google's auto-detecting capabilities through features such as Local Business Results, the new pull-down option will allow manual input of a location. There may be a "nearby" option as well, allowing advanced location-based customization.

While Google hasn't yet released the new UI to the general public, it is popping up in various regions across the country, so keep an eye out!