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This isn't a startup.

I don't think you'll find many people willing to annoy their followers/friends with advertisements, even in exchange for some pocket change.

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I think your vision is a little short sighted. I think business could use this on their own social media sites and alike.

I don't quite understand what you're saying. Do you mean businesses that are on Twitter and Facebook would use this to make extra money?

I'm not sure if that's what you meant but if so: Businesses are on Twitter/facebook to try to connect the current/prospective customers in order to encourage repeat business. Adding advertisements to short links would detract from that mission.

The site also lets you connect/link your own ads to display with the short links you create. For instance say I ran a retail business... I could "target' my own links to display my own ads. So when a user clicks on an one of my unbig.me link in the retailers Twitter stream - one of the retailers own ads could display.

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