It was only a matter of time before Twitter looked to cash in on its volumous community of users – and if rumours are to be believed that time is now.

TechCrunch is reporting that Twitter was suffering service difficulties yesterday and that during those interruptions some users spotted ads in their Twitter stream (could the users be mistaking Twitterrific ads if they are using those services?).

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