Shoving your monetization attempts in the user's face by interrupting the stream of information they expect from you is like shoving a dogshit-filled paper towel in someone's nose right before they take a bite of cake.
Twitter needs to make money or it will just go away.
How is showing sponsored tweets the same as "throwing your userbase in the shitter"? Your sense of entitlement is as disgusting as your scatological language.
I know what you mean by sense of entitlement, that sort of thing annoys me too. But in this case I don't think the person was displaying a sense of entitlement. Just opining that people will, in fact, vote with their feet, and that it's going to hurt Twitter a lot.
> Just opining that people will, in fact, vote with their feet, and that it's going to hurt Twitter a lot.
Well, if the people are going to do this when Twitter finally figures out a monetization strategy, then Twitter won't be in business for very long and people will be forced to find an alternative either way.
It's a bit silly to expect them to continue living off of hundreds of millions of VC money to preserve an ad-free user experience.
Don't pollute my datastream with unwanted content. Find another way to deliver the ads, even if it's alongside or above my normal stream. It's not a sense of entitlement, it's a sense that I don't want tweets from people/things/entities I don't give a damn about polluting my data stream.
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Growing up == throwing your userbase in the shitter? In case you were in a coma a year ago: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
Shoving your monetization attempts in the user's face by interrupting the stream of information they expect from you is like shoving a dogshit-filled paper towel in someone's nose right before they take a bite of cake.
Twitter needs to make money or it will just go away.
How is showing sponsored tweets the same as "throwing your userbase in the shitter"? Your sense of entitlement is as disgusting as your scatological language.
Don't like it? vote with your feet.
I know what you mean by sense of entitlement, that sort of thing annoys me too. But in this case I don't think the person was displaying a sense of entitlement. Just opining that people will, in fact, vote with their feet, and that it's going to hurt Twitter a lot.
> Just opining that people will, in fact, vote with their feet, and that it's going to hurt Twitter a lot.
Well, if the people are going to do this when Twitter finally figures out a monetization strategy, then Twitter won't be in business for very long and people will be forced to find an alternative either way.
It's a bit silly to expect them to continue living off of hundreds of millions of VC money to preserve an ad-free user experience.
Don't pollute my datastream with unwanted content. Find another way to deliver the ads, even if it's alongside or above my normal stream. It's not a sense of entitlement, it's a sense that I don't want tweets from people/things/entities I don't give a damn about polluting my data stream.