Top iPhone App Developer Was Losing Out On $2000 A Day Because Of Sloppy Coding

Great story from iPhone ad network provider AdWhirl. Apparently the developer of one of the most popular applications for the platform ever wasn't generating any ad revenue from it for several days, missing out on up to $2000 a day according to the company's co-founder Sam Yam. Here's the gist of what happened: Inner Four, the developer behind the insanely popular (and inane) iPhone / iPod Touch application Mirror Free (iTunes link) - a gratis tool that turns your device's screen into a mirror - was using a sample key instead of the key provided by AdWhirl that was supposed to power real display advertising units in the app interface.

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