It will be interesting to see if users can block advertisers they aren't interested in, like they would another user. I would imagine the various twitter clients out there will be quick to come up with ways to foil the ads, anyway. But since I seldom read tweets on the site (the users I care about go straight to my phone) I'm more curious to see if they automatically push to mobile users or just on-site readers.
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Cary Preston <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]<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.
