Twitter Starts Serving Ads For Third Party Apps

[jasonlbaptiste]

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/23/twitter-opens-the-revenue-faucet-starts-serving-ads/

[swombat]

I feel vindicated. Only days ago I was arguing that this was an ad area!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=523481

As I said in that comment, this is a masterful rollout of ads. First, they're building up our interest over this area by putting interesting things there, and then they will start putting real adverts there.

[ahoyhere → swombat]

It probably won't work, though it's a reasonably good idea.

People develop "ad blindness" very, very easily and quickly.

[vaksel]

we've all seen it coming a while ago

[jamesbritt]

Oh. I've been blocking that with a FF plugin (Remove it Permanently).

[TweedHeads]

So now microsoft controls facebook, digg and twitter's ads?

[axod → TweedHeads]

...and google controls the rest of the internets ads.