Comments on: Sponsored Tweets: What's Your Take?

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How To Monetize Social Media: The Right Way — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:35:46 +0000

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By: Burnman

Burnman — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:47:37 +0000

I don’t care how low the frequency of spam is, I have been regularly unfollowing and blocking people for using spam injection services like Sponsored Tweets, Twittad, Magpie, etc., regardless of the quality of their regular tweets. I encourage others to do the same. I wonder how much more stable the platform would be for legitimate users if the spammers were not wasting Twitter’s bandwidth.

By: twitwitted

twitwitted — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:34:53 +0000

Considering that my use of twitter is only alerts to new articles and stories i write or find and the occassional quote from something im reading (this numbers around 60 a day) and in the past 3 months or so Ive been with the sponsored tweets program, ive only sent around 15 individual tweets from 5 offers, and have not lost any of my 5.5k followers, I dont think its as big of an issue as the past commenters are, im more likely to unfollow for to many banal tweets about your daily life, im shopping at the mall, icecream with mom, etc. the freq of sposnored tweets is very small, and is disclosed via a hashtag along w/ some other options

By: Burnman

Burnman — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:22:37 +0000

How many blogs did you copy/paste that comment to? You’ve posted the exact same comment on at least two different blogs that I’m subscribed to.

By: Harsh Agrawal

Harsh Agrawal — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:22:13 +0000

I never liked the idea of making money from tweets, but Sponsored tweet is one of few programs which I actually liked…
Probably control over ad tweets is something which I always wanted..and since its been recommended by some big players..I dont mind trying it out…

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:47:14 +0000

But it’s not so obviously a win for sponsored tweeters. In fact, I think it’s a net LOSS for them – a loss of credibility. It cheapens them and their “brand” for me.

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Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:25:57 +0000

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By: Eric Ungs

Eric Ungs — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:00:53 +0000

Hey Mark…
You are right; the advertising will not have worked if I choose to ‘unfollow’. But that is the issue, I don’t want to have to ‘unfollow’ someone because of their sponsored tweat overload. This could be a person who produces great tweets/content in which I look forward to, now because of this, I will be missing out on. I am all for social network advertising, just not within our feeds. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out and how the twitter community reacts.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:39:27 +0000

Eric,
and if streams become cluttered, people will “unfollow” and the advertising won’t work…and how long ’til companies catch wind of that?

By: Burnman

Burnman — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:20:59 +0000

I will unfollow and block anyone who ends up using a sponsored Tweet service. They are nothing more than bandwidth hijacking spam injection systems and provide absolutely NO benefit to the Twitter community. They only cost users of such services credibility, followers, and the respect of people who cannot stand spammers.

By: Eric Ungs

Eric Ungs — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:28:57 +0000

I would be totally against the whole idea.

At first, it may seem not so bad, but as more companies catch wind of the idea your whole twitter stream will be nothing but ‘sponsored tweets’. As there is spamming and promoting already taking place, for the most part – it’s nice to have genuine, authentic feeds. Instead of cluttering your stream, why not have sponsored ads on the sides in the same efforts Facebook has shown. This I don’t mind — it’s like driving down a highway and having billboards along side the road, you look and keep going, but if they were in the middle of the road it would be ‘cluttered’ and would have to make an effort to bypass them.

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:52:16 +0000

This isn’t too bad in principle – celebrities and well-known figures have been endorsing brands, products and causes for years.

The only thing for me is that it should be plainly obvious that the tweet is a Sponsored Tweet, like having a #ST hashtag in there, you would only lose 3 characters and then I can tell the diference between someone’s true opinion and an endorsement; this is very easy to spot on TV, but less so on Twitter.

Without this you will lose a certain amount of trust and integrity and we all know how hard these are to come by nowadays.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:24:06 +0000

I’m in the sponsored tweets program (although I haven’t accepted, or declined, any offers yet)…I think sponsored conversations will work better than sponsred tweets will

By: J.R. Patten

J.R. Patten — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:04:00 +0000

It’ll all work itself out in time. If people get too annoyed with someone’s sponsored tweets, they’ll stop following.

If not, it’s because of one of two reasons (or both):
1. They are infrequent enough to not really be a bother.
2. They are actually useful, and people are finding out about things they want.

Either of those is at least a win-win-semiwin.

It’s obviously a win for sponsored tweeters. It’s a win for advertisers because people see their ads. And it’s at least a semiwin for followers since they could be being enhanced.

By: Ted Murphy

Ted Murphy — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:28:36 +0000

Sorry, I just think it is funny that you know my avatar but not my name : )-