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Re: Pimping your Twitter feed

CoryOBrien — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:20:11 -0000

I added to my thoughts above with a full post on Magpie: http://thefutureofads.com/2...

Re: Pimping your Twitter feed

StevenHodson — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:31:35 -0000

as much as I can appreciate the sentiment against advertising kiwispouse how do expect blogs like The Inquisitr to be able to pay the bills if you run an adblocker - how is that fair?

Re: Pimping your Twitter feed

kiwispouse — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:29:28 -0000

ugh. spamTweets? hopefully someone will come up with a adTweet blocker, so they can be avoided the same way i avoid sidebar ads, popups, etc on websites. advertisation is the root of all evil. right now you can choose not to follow those who are simply advertising themselves and their wares/services. to have a percentage of my chosen network, though, sending unavoidable adverts would result in an immediate thinning of said network, sadly losing the tweets that are worth receiving as well.

Re: Pimping your Twitter feed

jonesieboy — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:48:30 -0000

Perhaps the assessments handed out by The Honest Twitter Grader are close tothe mark ;-)

Re: Pimping your Twitter feed

Harshad Sharma — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:41:18 -0000

I am keen to read what people have to say, not to read some adverts. So I've written and am using a Russian roulette style magpie zombie kicker script that checks my twitterstream every x minutes and if somebody posted a magpie advert in the last 20 posts from various people... they get the boot.

Re: Pimping your Twitter feed

vimoh — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:26:05 -0000

Anuj,

Even PayPerPost has full disclosure. The objection to Magpie must stem from the fact that a blog (when it is a blog and not a site) is assumed to have a personal voice behind it.

In case of Twitter, it is PEOPLE telling you what THEY are doing. If every five tweets later, someone decided to tell you about a fantastic new restaurant because they are being paid for it and they have never even visited, it would (IMHO) disappoint their followers.

Re: Pimping your Twitter feed

Richie — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:11:34 -0000

I actually tried it out and made some cash right away. Seems like easy money ...

Re: Pimping your Twitter feed

CoryOBrien — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:41:41 -0000

Couldn't agree more.

Like Anuj, I signed up for Magpie to test it out, and quickly realized that I didn't want to contribute to the crapitization of Twitter. Even with full disclosure, it's basically saying that you're willing to spam your friends for a few bucks a month.

I can understand when Twitter services and programs, such as Twitteriffic, need to monetize Twitter with an occasional ad, because they need to pay for development, hosting, promotion, etc. However, I myself have no need to monetize my tweet stream, and I definitely shouldn't be using ads to 'pay' myself for using Twitter.

Hopefully others feel the same, and Magpie leaves Twitter the ad free space that we all want it to be.

Re: Pimping your Twitter feed

Anuj Seth — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:09:36 -0000

A little too harsh don't you think?

Since there is full disclosure, isn't it easy to just ignore the ad if you don't want to read it completely?

Out of curiosity I started using magpie just to assess the kind of ads that it sends. I'm not sure If I'll be sticking with it for too long.