‘Twitter’s Future: Commerce, Dinner Reservations and More TV Tie-Ins’ – ‘Mashable’

Todd Wasserman says, “As one ad exec noted, last week’s Cannes Lions festival was a great advertising vehicle for both Facebook and Twitter, both of which dominated discussion this year. While both companies made pitches during the event, the consensus seemed to be that what Twitter lacked in scale, it made up for in agility.In particular, the social network’s ability to let marketers capitalize on real-time trends and conversation evoked some envy for its 1.1 billion users-strong rival. Twitter isn’t resting on its laurels, though”.