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Twitter To Block Third-Party Paid Tweets

Posted by Soulskill on from the cutting-spam-and-competition dept.

tekgoblin writes "Today Twitter announced on its blog an upcoming change to its Terms of Service. The change will not allow anyone to promote paid tweets through the Twitter API. Twitter had announced previously that it will be releasing a 'Promoted Tweets' platform for advertisers that will be non-intrusive and will always be relevant to the Twitter timeline. This action taken by Twitter could be a hard hit for small publishers that relied on the paid tweets that will be blocked shortly. Depending on how expensive the Twitter Promoted Tweets will be, this will show us whether or not Promoted Tweets will be good for the little guy."

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  1. Violation of free speech! by newdsfornerds · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unconstitutional!
    LUL

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    1. Re:Violation of free speech! by FuckingNickName · · Score: 1, Funny

      This post is to alert you to /.'s judgement.

      You're not funny.

  2. This is our turf... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    And here, the competition sleeps with the failwhale.

  3. Pooping by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pooping. Poop is coming out now.

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  4. Re:that / which / that / which by natehoy · · Score: 2, Funny

    "That" and "which" are not interchangeable.

    Agreed, but the summary could have also used parenthesis to denote precedence.

    ((This action taken by Twitter could be a hard hit for small publishers) that relied on the paid tweets) that will be blocked shortly.

    OR a complete rewrite to eliminate passive voice.

    "This will hurt spammers."

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