Twitter Selling Ads, Eyeing Growth (And Battling Censorship) in #Russia

Twitter has started selling advertising in Russia as it looks to build in a market where it’s already on par with rival Facebook.

Twitter has about 10 million users in Russia compared to Facebook’s 10.5 million, which makes the country one of the few in the world where the two social networking giants are competing on even ground. Twitter is dwarfed by Facebook pretty much everywhere else, with the latter’s 1.3 billion users globally about 4.5