Itamar Kestenbaum

According to TechCrunch, Twitter’s Ad platform will be launching tonight! It’s been a long run of doubting Twitter’s ability to live up to their financial valuation, and now they’re going to show us how. According to a source, the platform will be similar to TweetUp which launched last night. The business model will be a combination of AdWords-style search listings, and bidding for individual keywords by companies.

So you want to help others.

Well that’s an ambitious cause – but do you have the know-how to find the people who need help from you? Sure. You can go around clicking the “new tweets” bar all you like – but you’ll probably find that only 3 out of every 100 tweets is actually a question.