Twitter Says It's OK To Sell Ads On Your Profile Background

Twitter has officially given its thumbs-up to publishers who want to use their Twitter background as advertising space.

AdAge reports that Twitter has confirmed that it doesn’t go against their rules if you want to put up ads behind your tweets. According to a Twitter spokesperson:

“The space is the user’s to customize, and we encourage them to be clear if they are promoting something there, for money or other consideration.”

Twitter was specifically responding to the recent background-turned-ad-space of the Time Inc.

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