Will Twitter lose its appeal with the proposed targeted ads?

Posted by Danny Denhard | Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

With the continuous suggestion Twitter will have ads sooner rather than later, the question for me is will people actually lose patience with the micro blogging site?

Personally speaking I think I could live with it, as you know I always sing the praises of Ubertwitter, Ubertwitter has added “sponsored tweets” on the top of your twitter feed for a few versions now and it doesn’t get that annoying (unless you select it of course).
It is whether Twitter forces these adverts through to online or desktop management suites like Hootsuite or Tweetdeck?

If they force them through I can see a few jump ship quickly, there is nothing more annoying than having an ad being thrown into your face and most Twitter users are generally quite savvy.

I for one, will have to wait and see but I can happily say now if I am fed crazy spammy links or tweets about drugs then i’ll be showing my own fail whale ;-)

Danny Denhard

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