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Re:What If Your Emails Never Went to Gmail and Twitter Could... by amirmc on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @05:54PM (#3800058)
FB could make deals with advertisers (like Coke) regardless of premium accounts. Twitter already does what you describe with their sponsored tweets.
Re:What If Your Emails Never Went to Gmail and Twitter Could... by Monotoko on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @06:43PM (#3800248)
FB also does this already, I saw a sponsored post when a friend liked eBay, it appeared at the top of my news feed and said "This is a sponsored story".

http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=154500071282557