Quoting Ryan Sarver <rsar...@twitter.com>:
I want to make sure this part is clear -- this policy change isn't meant to
say that we are going to start policing if the content of something a user
tweets is an ad or not. The policy change affects 3rd party services that
were putting ads in the middle of a timeline.
So if Liz is paid by Reebok to tweet about how much she loves their new
shoes, we are not going to be policing that any more than we were on Friday.
This policy also *does not prohibit* services like Ad.ly that help
facilitate those relationships or even help her post the ads to her timeline
on her behalf.
It *does prohibit* an application from calling out to a service to find an
ad to serve to Liz that will get inserted into the timeline she is viewing.
The language is somewhat nuanced but it sounds like we might need to make
the policy more explicit as a number of people are misinterpreting it.
Let me know if you have more questions.
Ryan
Ryan, you could do the whole world a *huge* favor and post this (and
the other similar post) as a comment to Mashable's extracts of today's
discussion here.
http://mashable.com/2010/05/24/twitter-third-party-ad-networks/
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com> wrote:
Liz,
You are 100% correct in summarizing the problem. Not only were those
businesses built with the full knowledge of Twitter, Twitter even had
specific rules governing sponsored tweets (had to be clearly marked as
sponsored, etc.).
I'm really baffled by this decision of Twitter, because I don't
understand how they expect to have integrity and trust with developers
while doing this type of stuff.
Right now we are all being pointed to Annotations as the holy grail of
new development. But how do we know that they won't yet again change a
rule in the future that will kill businesses that were built on top of
Annotations?
On May 24, 3:56 pm, Liz <nwjersey...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Peter, I think the problem is that business have been created,
> received funding and developed over the past year, with the full
> knowledge of Twitter, and this just undercuts & destroys them.
>
> I think people can understand the rationale (and the desire for
> Twitter to eliminate competition) but this is a policy decision that
> should have been made over a year ago. Twitter should have included
> this in an earlier terms of service instead of giving an implicit
> "okay" to services like Sponsored Tweets which has turned into a
> successful company.
>
> It also seems disingenuous that the blog post says that a "guiding
> principle" of Twitter is that "We don't seek to control what users
> tweet. And users own their own tweets." and allow adult-oriented
> content and photos but for some reason, users can't Tweet ads. That
> sounds like control of content to me.
>
> Liz
