Just so that I'm clear, the fact that Twitter chose to do this isn't a surprise. It's the fact that I've been participating in events, developing, networking, and building a team all year AFTER getting affirmations from individuals at Twitter that I had nothing to worry about in building a Twitter advertising platform.
I've seen a lot of bad behavior from ad platforms that incent users to tweet for short-term financial gain, so I understand the need to tidy up from time to time. But, this was more like sand-blasting the living room in order to do some dusting. Maybe you guys have a Google Adsense-type shared revenue model (or something similar) in the works that enables those who know how to properly add value and relevance to generate an income stream in a way that is beneficial to Twitter users and Twitter. That would make sense. Another great strategy would have been issuing a warning to bad players while also incenting everyone to build mechanisms to support Promoted Tweets. There are a number of paths that could have been chosen that would have been a win-win. "...we will not allow any third party to inject paid tweets into a timeline on any service that leverages the Twitter API" The way this reads, you can't even have a WordPress blog that puts ads near a Twitter stream. Please correct me if I'm misinterpreting this. RIP Ad.ly, Sponsored Tweets, Magpie, Pay4Tweet, StockTwits, MuckRack, (No more ads Listorious), TwittAd (and the non-profits you've supported), 140Proof, etc., etc. -Mo On May 24, 9:23 am, Mo <[email protected]> wrote: > You guys couldn't have hinted about this to me at the developer meetup > or at Chirp before I built up a team? Thanks. > > It's fitting that the author of the post is named Dick. > > http://blog.twitter.com/2010/05/twitter-platform.html
