Digital marketing firm IgnitionOne on June 6 also announced a Facebook ads management service that works alongside its search, display, and mobile ads services.

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Google faced a similar battle when its founders made the tough decision to layer an agnostic search service with paid ads, and balancing such a service for a consumer market has remained an algorithmic challenge for Google ever since.

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Previously, Twitter allowed only larger companies to buy ads on the service.

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