Depends on how the ads are deployed. I don't mind the passive sidebar ads on
Gmail, but a push ad that nestles into the stream of updates is more than I
care to put up with. It's atypical advertising; the advertisers are sending
you unsolicted tweets.

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Jennifer Walker <
[email protected]> wrote:

> How is this any different than any other free service hosting ads on their
> site?
>
> As much as folks retweet contest ads from SyFy and the like, even if
> someone retweets a promoted tweet it's really not going to make *that* much
> difference in the grand scheme of things (except that I'll be more inclined
> to unfollow them if they do it overmuch). Furthermore, I get texts from
> certain companies outside of twitter for updates on shows (Bravo being one
> of the mentioned promoters, for instance) or product discounts (Tropical
> Smoothie).
>
> While I would consider paying a quarterly fee for the service twitter
> provides, I'm just as happy if they find some corporate sponsors and keep it
> free.
>
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Cary Preston <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/041310-twitter-to-start-pushing-advertising.html
>>
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>> Glad I never started with Twitter now.
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