Promoted Tweets: Twitters Advertising Model Announced

I'm thinkin' their investors are finally breathing a sigh of relief...how much have they given so far with no ROI? lol
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Perfectly acceptable in search.

As for individual streams, as long as you're following the person/company anyway, whats the problem....how is it different from me following a blogger that tweets an affiliate promotion?
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Oooppss. Sorry about that. Just read your post again and went over to Twitters blog to read the announcement. My question has been cleared.
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Twitter does need a business model right. Just like any major website it need funding of some sort and I guess these guys are giving it a go and see what happens. I will dug a little deeper on this one. Sounds intriguing and would like to know how exactly will it work. It this available for everyone?
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I am all for twitter monetizing a lil bit, I'm sure we all have :)

The ads on search for searched keywords is cool, but their next sponsored tweet platform update is to possibly put ads in your timeline, this I think is a big mistake.

Hopefully they don't go to far with monetizing that they lose what twitter was built on.

I think it's a good move for Twitter - they've got to monetize it somehow, and even it means I'll be seeing the occasional tweet from people I'm not following, I don't mind - it'll be interesting to see how it pans out, of course, but my initial feeling is that it'll be fine.
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Best possible move Twitter could have made. They're not actually introducing advertising so much as allowing people to selectively promote content to a wider audience.

After they start dropping ads in users home streams, they'll probably introduce a subscription model. I remember so many people complaining that they'd never pay for Twitter - I'd like to see how that turns out ;P
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I don't find this to be any more intrusive than the sponsored tweets I or anyone else send out. Then again, let's hope they don't get greedy too fast and annoy more than promote.
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I have only recently started using Twitter (I know, I am slow sometimes), and I don't know that these ads would bother me.

But, I do know people who are regular users (addicts) and will likely be bothered if they see these all the time.

However, it does seem likely that Twitter needs this as they continue to grow.
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Please allow me to apologize for my 1st comment.I'm visually challenged and have to struggle to read. I completely missed the boat there and fell off the end of the pier when I skim read your post. So here I am again clinging to the pylons dog paddling with a red face.

Question: If Twitter were to implement some sort of advertisement stream where they can blast adds to your account even if you weren’t following the advertiser, what would you do?

Answer: Delete my account.

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Unlike those who have monetized blogs I don't get paid in any way shape or form to blog. Unlike those who welcomed the influx of internet marketers into the blogosphere I didn't and don't.

I find the 140 character limitation of twitter to be a barrier to conducting any meaningful conversation. I dislike communicating in what amounts to sound bites. IMO the schemers, scammers, spammers and other dross that send unwanted & unappreciated DMs have done a pretty good job of ruining my original enjoyment of twitter. Added to that is the perpetual retweeting promotion of how to use twitter "the right way" posts and you have an idea of where I'm at.

As far as traffic goes twitter doesn't deliver much to my blogs because I refuse "to work it". So if Twitter blasts my account with advertising [shrug] then I'm history.
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I consider this get paid to spam followers move to to be a bad one. I will immediately block any follower who spams me with this garbage.
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This is good news for Twitter and this might bring the revenue that Twitter needs to keep off potential buyers like Google I personally don't see any problem at this time lets want and see.
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