HuffPost Experiments with Giving Marketers Access to Comments, Twitter Feeds

The Huffington Post is experimenting with a new take on using Twitter to generate advertising sales, offering marketers the opportunity to add paid comments to reader comments on stories and to place paid tweets on the live Twitter feeds the site collects for subjects and events, AdAge.com reported.

Responding to concerns that this process will interfere with visitors’ viewing experiences at HuffPost, president and chief revenue officer Greg Coleman told AdAge.com marketers will receive guidance on how to enhance conversations, adding, “You cannot use the social engagement for the purposes of really hawking your products.

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