Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Twitter Unveils Plans to Draw Money From Ads

nytimes.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 27 posts

Re: Twitter Unveils Plans to Draw Money From Ads

#11

Post by acgourley »

gojomo wrote: post #7

It's not quite what they've announced, but I think there's potential in the idea that advertisers would pay to promote positive things people are already saying. There's serious trust/disclosure issues to work out -- burying bad reviews and promoting good ones for payola is what makes Yelp seem a bit slimy. But if advertisers can pay to multiply any little positive thing said by someone real near you, who you already…

I think building that stack that figures out who is saying positive things on twitter about brands is probably valuable in itself. You can resell the results to whomever.

Re: Twitter Unveils Plans to Draw Money From Ads

#12

Post by dustyreagan »

lunchbox wrote: post #5

"According to comScore, Twitter.com had 22.3 million unique visitors in March, up from 524,000 a year ago" The 524,000 figure looks fishy. Compete.com puts Twitter's April 2009 unique visitors at 19 million (versus 21 million for April 2010).

Compete's stats are WAY off. At least for my sites. I suspect they are for others too.

Re: Twitter Unveils Plans to Draw Money From Ads

#13

Post by gojomo »

acgourley wrote: post #11
gojomo wrote: post #7

It's not quite what they've announced, but I think there's potential in the idea that advertisers would pay to promote positive things people are already saying. There's serious trust/disclosure issues to work out -- burying bad reviews and promoting good ones for payola is what makes Yelp seem a bit slimy. But if advertisers can pay to multiply any little positive thing said by someone real near you, who you already…

I think building that stack that figures out who is saying positive things on twitter about brands is probably valuable in itself. You can resell the results to whomever.

Last summer, I was curious about how Mechanical Turk worked, and signed up for some HITs. I had to classify the sentiment of tweets -- mostly about airlines/airports/travel-in-progress. I suspect I was helping train an automatic classifier. So work on such stacks is certainly underway...

Re: Twitter Unveils Plans to Draw Money From Ads

#14

Post by pistoriusp »

apphacker wrote: post #6

Queue the apps that remove tweets in your stream not from your followers. Ad-blocking for twitter.

If long yearned for a function that would "silence tweets for 60 minutes."

Sometimes I'm really just not interested in the conference you're attending right nos; but generally I'm pretty pleased to follow you.

Re: Twitter Unveils Plans to Draw Money From Ads

#15

Post by lunchbox »

dustyreagan wrote: post #12
lunchbox wrote: post #5

"According to comScore, Twitter.com had 22.3 million unique visitors in March, up from 524,000 a year ago" The 524,000 figure looks fishy. Compete.com puts Twitter's April 2009 unique visitors at 19 million (versus 21 million for April 2010).

Compete's stats are WAY off. At least for my sites. I suspect they are for others too.

Could be, but given the Twitter hype last year, 524k seems off by an order of magnitude at least.

Re: Twitter Unveils Plans to Draw Money From Ads

#16

Post by tlrobinson »

pistoriusp wrote: post #14
apphacker wrote: post #6

Queue the apps that remove tweets in your stream not from your followers. Ad-blocking for twitter.

If long yearned for a function that would "silence tweets for 60 minutes." Sometimes I'm really just not interested in the conference you're attending right nos; but generally I'm pretty pleased to follow you.

Some Twitter clients have keyword filtering, including Tweetie for Mac.

Re: Twitter Unveils Plans to Draw Money From Ads

#17

Post by franck »

pistoriusp wrote: post #14
apphacker wrote: post #6

Queue the apps that remove tweets in your stream not from your followers. Ad-blocking for twitter.

If long yearned for a function that would "silence tweets for 60 minutes." Sometimes I'm really just not interested in the conference you're attending right nos; but generally I'm pretty pleased to follow you.

Brizzly has a "mute" feature.
Post reply on HN