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Twitter To Block Third-Party Paid Tweets
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."
Unconstitutional!
LUL
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... to profit from their self-destruction and not share it with others. The only reason why one might consider this a strange move is that Twitter is the epitome of superficial image cultivation, so it seems natural for its users to see it as an advertising channel.
And here, the competition sleeps with the failwhale.
But the whole thing disgusts me.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
Of course Twitter isn't going to allow advertisers to use their API for free. They will muzzle any attempts to do so in the name of preventing spam, then turn around and charge them for the privilege.
Just read that A new paid tweet service was launched in japan.
A company wants to make money! I'm starting an online petition!
it's under construction
This action taken by Twitter could be a hard hit for small publishers that relied on the paid tweets
If you "rely" on "paid tweets," go fuck yourself and find an actual business model. Seriously.
Thanks to the War on Drugs, it's easier to buy meth than it is to buy cold medicine!
In order to continue to provide clarity, our guiding principles include:
1. We don't seek to control what users tweet. And users own their own tweets.
So users are still free to tweet "Blue Sun makes the BEST saddles in the verse! #blueSun #spaceHorse" and receive payment from Blue Sun, but apps can't display ads in the feed that aren't coming from twitter?
Meh, fine by me.
You can't take the sky from me...
Well, marketers deserve neither pity nor mercy, nor acceptance in civilized company. However, that doesn't really change the (potentially invidious) little business cycle of our time:
Thanks to network effects, the bigger the player the more valuable the property(architecturally, making your own Twitter, with blackjack, and hookers, and slightly more characters per message would be trivial. Getting anybody to care would be an uphill slog. Same goes for something like Facebook.) Thanks to the ever more nuanced access control, cryptographic restriction, and analytics schemes available, the incumbent is in an excellent position to extract rents. Rent-seeking is generally a bad thing for everyone who isn't the rentier.
Now, I'm hard-pressed to shed a tear for the poor would-be twit-marketing millionaires who will be sucked dry by this; but the strong incentives to build structures from which rents can easily be extracted has its downsides. On the services side, outfits strive for lock-in; both in data portability issues, and in not integrating well with third parties, reducing effective customer choice. On the hardware side, we see the dangerous trend toward the manufacturer retaining cryptographic control over the device in perpetuity, and extracting fees for the privilege of doing various things(like selling software for the platform, or being able to play multiplayer games on your own hardware, with your own internet connection, that were once simply part of owning a computer).
The marketers might be the first to bleed(and they will, given their professional specialization in noise-making, certainly be the loudest); but they will not be the last.
in 2000/2001 wise man once say "web company make no money is web company that go bye bye"
Pooping. Poop is coming out now.
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Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
"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."
"This post contains words, known to the State of California to cause thought. Wash brain thoroughly after reading."
"That's a whole lot of stupid."
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
This action taken by Twitter could be a hard hit for small publishers that relied on the paid tweets that will be blocked shortl
By "publisher" you mean "advertising middle-man"? Or maybe "Another business whose sole revenue relies on being the third or fourth party in an advertising imprint?" Cry me a river. Alternatively-- work on a real business plan, selling actual service of value, and see how that works instead.
So what is a "paid Tweet"?
If Barack Obama tweets about politics, and he is paid to be the President of the USA, is that a "paid tweet"?
Don't know exactly how they are going to do these "Promoted Tweets" but if advertising tweets start appearing in my feed I'll be leaving twitter...
Almost all the people I follow are "real people" and not organizations. There is one Si Valley VC incubator I follow that's sort of interesting; but I only started following them recently. I'm not commercial so I don't care. If people who WANT to get spammed help support Twitter, fine by me. I've found Twitter to be the "I don't have to deal with Farmville invites, or drunk pictures" version of Facebook. If they were to clutter their UI, that would kill them for me. This won't.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?