What’s wrong with classifieds, in fewer than 140 characters

By • September 18th, 2008 • E-mail this post E-mail this post

What’s wrong with most newspaper classifieds? Over on Twitter, the wildly popular micro-blogging website, I spotted Matt Neznanski’s succinct answer to that question. (Twitter forces its users to make their statement in 140 or fewer characters.)

Is he describing your classifieds operation? What can you do to make his gripe a thing of the past? (You can have more than 140 characters.)

"What’s wrong with classifieds, in fewer than 140 characters" by was published on September 18th, 2008 and is listed in Ideas.

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