Considering these features will at some point or another be part of the API,
this conversation very clearly belongs here. Developers need to be informed,
to be able to plan ahead, for these sorts of things, or you burn your
community and they'll migrate elsewhere.
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Aaron Brazell <emmenset...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Not to throw water on a clearly passionate fire, but the twitter
> development mailing list is really not the place for Twitter business model
> conversations. Can we take it to the blogs... or Twitter, for that matter?
> ;)
>
> Kthxbai.
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> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Chad Etzel <jazzyc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Yes, agreed. I just wanted to make sure we weren't headed for a
>> Facebook-TOS-style Meltdown or Twitter becoming "Conglomo: We Own You"
>> (+10 pts if you know that reference).
>>
>> -Chad
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Andrew Badera <and...@badera.us> wrote:
>> > "Owns the content" in terms of every bit, every byte, flows through
>> their
>> > architecture. They can derive context allll day long.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Chad Etzel <jazzyc...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> "Owns the content" and "has full access to the content" should be
>> >> regarded as different things. From Twitter's own TOS:
>> >>
>> >> "We claim no intellectual property rights over the material you
>> >> provide to the Twitter service. Your profile and materials uploaded
>> >> remain yours. You can remove your profile at any time by deleting your
>> >> account. This will also remove any text and images you have stored in
>> >> the system."
>> >>
>> >> -Chad
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Andrew Badera <and...@badera.us>
>> wrote:
>> >> > Definitely plenty of room for contextual advertisements or pitches.
>> >> > Twitter
>> >> > owns the content and the contact info for the users, period.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Dan Brickley <dan...@danbri.org>
>> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On 26/3/09 14:25, Joshua Perry wrote:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Not to start speculating but when Biz says "Will there be
>> >> >>> opportunities
>> >> >>> for introducing customers to businesses on Twitter?" it makes me
>> >> >>> nervous, because what this really means is, "Will there be
>> >> >>> opportunities
>> >> >>> to get paid to let companies spam our users?".
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> And I say this because with Twitter clients, and services like
>> Twitpic
>> >> >>> already starting to capitalize directly from people interfacing
>> with
>> >> >>> Twitter through their applications, I don't know how Twitter would
>> >> >>> accomplish this "introduction" purely by Ads on its web site. These
>> >> >>> applications and websites, for some people, are becoming the
>> interface
>> >> >>> to Twitter and they do not have access to Ad space on these
>> >> >>> properties.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Does that just leave us tweets, or texts as a reliable way for
>> Twitter
>> >> >>> to introduce companies to users?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> The "xyz is now following you on twitter" emails are another
>> reasonable
>> >> >> place for financially-lubricated introductions, whether contextual
>> >> >> ("Nearby
>> >> >> On Twitter: xyz is also following abc, a supplier of custom
>> blahblahs
>> >> >> to the
>> >> >> foobar industry. Here are abc's last 3 tweets, for more, CLICK HERE
>> TO
>> >> >> SUBSCRIBE NOW, etc etc") or just footer/boilerplate "sponsored by"
>> >> >> links.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Dan
>> >> >>
>> >> >> --
>> >> >> http://danbri.org/
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >
>> >
>>
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