Bill Gross and Jon Kraft founded TweetUp to transform Twitter from chaotic babble into a useful media platform by creating a bidding system to surface the most relevant tweets. TweetUp will partner with websites and apps to showcase curated tweets and experts on topics related to what users are reading. This will introduce mainstream audiences to influential tweeters while generating revenue through advertising and brand partnerships. Initial distribution partners and investors include top media companies, venture capital firms, and Internet pioneers who have successfully scaled other platforms.

2. Build Your Following!

3. Summary Founding Idea:TweetUp is Transformational Founding Team The TweetUp Effect: Twitter as a Real Media Platform The Problem With Twitter The TweetUp Network:Creating Order from Chaos Why Users Will Love It Why Distribution Partners Are Embracing It Investors Appendix Partner Implementation Examples

4. Founding Team Bill Gross, Founder and CEO Founder of 75 companies including Goto/Overture sold to Yahoo in 2003, CitySearch, Picasa, NetZero, Answers.com, Shopping.com. Caltech BS 1981. Jon Kraft, COOCo-founder Stanford Technology Group, sold to Informix; CEO and Co-founder of Pandora.com, COO and Co-founder of BigStage. Stanford AB 1988. Steve Chadima, CMOCMO at numerous start-ups, including Knowledge Adventure, FreePC, New.net, Energy Innovations; ran local offices of two PR firms (Regis McKenna, Connors); IR/Policy head at Suntech. Stanford MBA 1975.

6. 10% to 20% (and growing) of Twitter’s feed consists of interesting, serious information. That’s over 2 billion Tweets.

8. The Problem with Twitter What you find: What you want to find: ***nsfw***

9. The TweetUp Network: Creating Order from Chaos Find: Useful real-time information Experts to follow Relevant search results TweetUp Platform & Search Algorithms Tweets, Including 75% “Useless Babble” Database of Relevant Tweets and Serious Tweeters TweetUp uses a bidding platform and sophisticated relevance algorithms to sift through the noise and pull out the most relevant, useful Tweets. Then, mainstream distribution partners present this information as content to their users, providing informative experts for their users to follow as well as pertinent, real-time information that shows the distribution channel in a cutting edge light, while driving revenue.

10. Why Users Will Love It Imagine millions of users reading their favorite websites A Twidget on the right of the site automatically scrapes the page and determines keywords related to the article, post or forum they’re reading. It simultaneously presents: Some of the most important breaking information about the topics A series of experts on the topics that the users can instantly follow A special offer related to the topics Most mainstream consumers today have no idea who the prevailing experts are in their fields of interest, much less do they know how to go about following them. TweetUp will make this possible, and introduce Twitter in a new light to an entirely new audience.

11. How Brands Can Leverage TweetUp Boost brand-related tweeters and tweets across the TweetUp network Direct Tweeting – Ensure tweets are delivered to a targeted audience actively searching for what you have to offer Organic Tweet Boosting – Find the positive buzz about your brand coming from others and boost those tweets and tweeters Result is a strong, targeted Twitter following for your brand A brand can bea product, an event, a film or TV show, an artist, or any person who wants to raise their following among highly motivated consumers

12. Why Distribution Partners Are Embracing It TweetUp is self-monetizing content Delivers real, targeted value to a publisher’s users Conveys a cutting-edge sophistication on the publisher’s site Generates revenue

13. Initial Distribution Partners and many more to come!

14. TweetUp’s Investors Noted early stage investors in such companies as Skype, last.fm, MyHeritage, and Playfish, among more than 100 others. Founded by Steve Case (AOL founder), investor in ZipCar, LivingSocial, Everyday Health and other companies. Creator of over 75 companies since 1996, including GoTo/Overture, CitySearch, eToys, Picasa, NetZero and eSolar Jason Calacanis Noted Internet entrepreneur and blogger. Founded Silicon Alley Reporter, journal of record chronicling the New York Internet scene in the 1990s. Founder of Mahalo.com. Early investor in Twitter, TweetDeck and Bit.ly along with many other companies in social and new media. Early stage investor in such companies as Mint, StumbleUpon, and CoTweet, among many others. Jeff Jarvis Author of What Would Google Do? and founder of BuzzMachine, where he blogs about media and news.

15. Appendix — Partner Implementation Examples

16. TweetUp Client Widget Examples Relevant, Bestof Category tweets:Baseball

17. TweetUp Client Widget Examples Relevant, Bestof Category tweets:The Economy

18. Ubiquitous Distribution of TweetUp Search Field Ad unit search Header search with full logo Header search with logotype Header search with ghosted logotype Header search with brand name

19. Mobile TweetUp TweetUp tab TweetUp search field TweetUp co-branded dismissible bar

20. Example of TweetUp on Right-hand Column of TweetDeck

21. TweetUp Web Site: Home Page

22. Example of Seesmic Integration on Home Page

23. Proposed bit.ly integration

24. Example of Registration Widget

25. Rollover Twidget™ Example

26. Questions/Comments:Joseph SarmientoBusiness DevelopmentTweetUp - World's Best Tweetersphone: 626-229-3155email: joe@tweetup.com@SarmiChirps