Ads Coming On Twitter Soon

February 24, 2010 | Sarah Chong   http://www.penn-olson.com/2010/02/24/ads-coming-on-twitter-soon/

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• BrianYanish
  Ok, so you don't want Twitter to make money on ads. What if you had the choice of getting a monthly paid Twitter account with no ads or Twitter start charging companies like Tweetdeck for all the api calls they use for you to post and see tweets. Would you pay a monthly fee to Twitter or Tweetdeck etc.?
  
  We want Twitter to grow as a company and add new features, but without $$$, guess what, that's hard to do.
  
  Happy Tweeting!
• Aaron
  I agree on Brian here.
  Google started off 3 years without making a DIME. Look at where they are today? Their main income is from there ads. This allowed them to grow their company at an extraordinary rate and today dominate the search engines.
• BrianYanish
  It's funny many of the people I've talk to that hate ads on a website or the internet as a whole, are some of the same people that don't like it if a company is making money.
  
  It's easy math, a profitable company create jobs, how it that a bad thing? Your right, where would Google be today if they never made a dollar?
• sarah_chong
  It is essential for Twitter to monetize and I think those of us who love this service should support its ad platform. However, it is good to note that Twitter can also monetize by selling real time data and providing strategic statistics tools for businesses. Of course, advertising brings in a bigger bulk of the money.
  
  With little knowledge about how the ad platform works, it might worry some people that the volume of sponsored tweets would become too overwhelming, even for people who don't mind ads. But I guess we should trust Twitter's promise of keeping the ads relevant and useful for users.
  
  How it's going to be received depends highly on the execution. We shall see!
• Tom | Build That List
  To be honest, advertising doesn't bother me. They are a business and they provide a service, so they should be making money for their effort.
• omgzam
  Personally, I'll unfollow users who tweets ads. Twitter is more about connection rather than hard selling, that's what I think.
• Aaron
  I think there is a limit of ads, for some reason I like to see them. Not click them! LoL.. creative ads attracts my attention. Good learning process. Unless that tweep keeps posting
  
  buy me, buy me, buy me, then I'll unfollow =)
  
  Cheers
• Sarah Chong
  Agreed. It's understandable to casually advertise through tweets but an ad platform would uncontrollably invite too many sponsored tweets. I guess 2 way conversations are going back to one way.