So, wanna hear some jaw dropping news? Twitter announced that it will begin displaying promoted tweets from the brands Twitter users are following at the top of users' timelines. Services are being rolled out with partners such as HBO, LivingSocial, Groupon, XBox, Gatorade, Red Bull and Dell. Now can anyone say "hey, were is my cut?", because let's face the truth, almost everyone on the web is either in marketing, they are just starting out or they will soon be converted and in the advertising world money talks, products walk...right? That would be a good idea for Twitter to share ad revenue and be the micro blog version of adsense but then I imagine there would be some conflict of interest and a great deal of concern regarding click fraud or other related acts of advertising abuse.
Anyhow, in my opinion this is total B.S. and if they want to put up ads from their partners then let them do so, but by making big company tweets more relevant then your tweets or the latest tweets from your friends whom you are following says a lot about Twitter and really shows that they do not value Twitter users, as a matter of fact I will go on to say that Twitter sees their users as disposable and of very little value since they feel that big companies Tweets are more important then those of the very users who make it possible for big companies to even exist.
Remember always that this is what tends to happen when a company gets too big, they start to abuse the very structure which is beneath them as a foundation and as history teaches us all empires eventually collapse, in this case major companies are the empires and unless we don't allow for history to repeat itself we will be seeing a lot of big shot corporations fall into ruin because of such practices. I hope that everyone out there understands what I am indicating...
Anyhow, in my opinion this is total B.S. and if they want to put up ads from their partners then let them do so, but by making big company tweets more relevant then your tweets or the latest tweets from your friends whom you are following says a lot about Twitter and really shows that they do not value Twitter users, as a matter of fact I will go on to say that Twitter sees their users as disposable and of very little value since they feel that big companies Tweets are more important then those of the very users who make it possible for big companies to even exist.
Remember always that this is what tends to happen when a company gets too big, they start to abuse the very structure which is beneath them as a foundation and as history teaches us all empires eventually collapse, in this case major companies are the empires and unless we don't allow for history to repeat itself we will be seeing a lot of big shot corporations fall into ruin because of such practices. I hope that everyone out there understands what I am indicating...
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