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Now this is interesting. Twitter 3rd party clients would finally have some sort of business model too!
If they aren't too intrusive (and I doubt they will be), this sounds alright. It's just surprising they haven't done it sooner, which probably shows the ads won't be intrusive. If Twitter were hellbent on making tons of cash as soon as possible, they would've thrown ads all over the place quickly.
Queue the apps that remove tweets in your stream not from your followers. Ad-blocking for twitter.
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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.
Something like this doesn't bother me at all. I enjoy using Twitter for free, and as long as the ads are targeted based on what I search for, they can be quite useful. If they aren't too intrusive (and I doubt they will be), this sounds alright. It's just surprising they haven't done it sooner, which probably shows the ads won't be intrusive. If Twitter were hellbent on making tons of cash as soon as possible, they w…
You enjoy watching ads on TV, hearing them on radio, reading them on billboards, seeing them on buses, in subways, on milk cartons, benches, ...
It's always OK if it's free, right?
And, they _are_ hell-bent on making cash. Everyone who seriously applies themselves, as they are doing, are hell-bent on making cash. They've acquired a huge base of users who, inexplicably, find value in their wares.
You and those masses are hooked, and now you're advertising targets. Happily so, in your case.
Queue the apps that remove tweets in your stream not from your followers. Ad-blocking for twitter.