Posted on 13 May 2009, 8:52pm, in Twitter, Web. leave a comment
The world is currently awash with blog posts criticizing twitter for removing the ability to see @replies from people you follow to people you don’t.
Now if this wasn’t something you had enabled from the settings on twitter.com you probably haven’t noticed a change, but for me it’s rather annoying!
It was a great way of discovering new people to follow from conversations the current people you follow had with others, that’s now all gone.
Please twitter, re-enable this setting. Thanks.
Posted on 3 Dec 2008, 1:51pm, in advertising, Twitter. 1 comment
Can I first say how much I love Twitter. I’m using it more and more everyday, I’m definitely starting to become addicted.
Now, a new service has sprung up to take advantage (meant in a good way) of Twitter’s massive user base. That service is Magpie, an advertising network.
Having spoke to few friends it seems there’s a mixed reaction to it, from “yeah, seems a clever idea”, to “it’ll make me unfollow anyone using it”.
With regards to it making people unfollow you, with anything it boils down to your followers getting value from your tweets. If I get loads of value from someone who has advertising on their twitter stream, so what, provided that the adverts do not overwhelm that stream.
Overall I think this advertising model is a great idea and I will be keeping it eye on it to see whether it’s worth using.
