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 >> >> -- Shared with Google Share Button >> >> Glad I never started with Twitter now. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Unique Geek" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<theuniquegeek%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<theuniquegeek%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
