At present, search is not on my radar as an API I want to use in
development, but I am concerned about the implications for monitoring
services based on the search API.

On 13 April 2010 15:31, Dewald Pretorius <[email protected]> wrote:

> Don't be too hasty with that ad blocking code.
>
> 1) It sounds as if Twitter will share ad revenue with external apps.
>
> 2) It very well might be against (new) API TOS to use the API and
> block ads (I would do that if I were them).
>
> On Apr 13, 10:48 am, Duane Roelands <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm curious about this myself. One of the first things end users are
> > going to ask for is a way to block these ads from their timelines.
> > Don't kid yourself; there's a reason why AdBlock is such a popular
> > Firefox plugin.
> >
> > Secondary question: Is the first step towards paid Twitter accounts,
> > where free users have to receive ads and paid users do not?  Straight
> > answers here would be appreciated.
> >
> > On 13 Apr, 05:28, Tim <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
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> >
> > > I've been looking around for information on how the new "promoted
> > > tweets" advertising feature will affect the API, and I've not really
> > > found anything. I gather that it's a two phase approach starting with
> > > search and then rolling out to timelines, but can anyone here
> > > clarify:
> > > (a) whether API responses will include promoted tweets,
> > > (b) whether these tweets will be identified as ads
> > > (c) whether third parties are 'obligated' to present them to users
> > > (d) whether there will be an API Terms of Use as a result- Hide quoted
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