The last big news about Twitter is the incorporation of ads in the twits. Maybe you read it on a new Twitter mashup called Twitlinks. Twitlinks aggregates the latest links posted to Twitter by tech industry pundits. The end result is a homepage that kind of resembles Techmeme, only without the threading of topics.
In fact, I read the news on Techcrunch and I was surprised to see all the comments more or less in favor of ads on Twitter. No hysteria against or pro there. Well balanced comments. Personally, I am against since the service is already overloaded and crash regularly.
An other interresting point of view was found on the (oversnobbed by some) Valleywag blog.
"Ads on Twitter? They already exist — just not where TechCrunch's Duncan Riley thought they appeared. Twitter cofounder Biz Stone denied Riley's report, telling Silicon Alley Insider, "We're not putting ads on Twitter.com" — meaning Twitter's website. Of course. That would be the stupidest imaginable place to put ads, and Stone knows it. Which is why, for almost half a year, Twitter has been running ads elsewhere.
Twitter messages are limited to 140 characters, a space constraint meant to allow them to be sent to cell phones as text messages. Many of them are shorter, though, and Twitter has been using the remaining space to place house ads since last October, as entrepreneur Charlie O'Donnell first noticed. They began as jokey little asides: "Tip: Wow, you look *good." But they've since changed to tips about Twitter features. As O'Donnel noted, it's a simple step for Twitter to switch from advertising its own products to advertising others: "Tip: Drink Jamba Juice." "
In fact, I read the news on Techcrunch and I was surprised to see all the comments more or less in favor of ads on Twitter. No hysteria against or pro there. Well balanced comments. Personally, I am against since the service is already overloaded and crash regularly.
An other interresting point of view was found on the (oversnobbed by some) Valleywag blog.
"Ads on Twitter? They already exist — just not where TechCrunch's Duncan Riley thought they appeared. Twitter cofounder Biz Stone denied Riley's report, telling Silicon Alley Insider, "We're not putting ads on Twitter.com" — meaning Twitter's website. Of course. That would be the stupidest imaginable place to put ads, and Stone knows it. Which is why, for almost half a year, Twitter has been running ads elsewhere.
Twitter messages are limited to 140 characters, a space constraint meant to allow them to be sent to cell phones as text messages. Many of them are shorter, though, and Twitter has been using the remaining space to place house ads since last October, as entrepreneur Charlie O'Donnell first noticed. They began as jokey little asides: "Tip: Wow, you look *good." But they've since changed to tips about Twitter features. As O'Donnel noted, it's a simple step for Twitter to switch from advertising its own products to advertising others: "Tip: Drink Jamba Juice." "
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