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Totally true, that's why you're better off building your own Twitter or Facebook to support your advertising efforts.

• jrockway 16y ago
  I know you're being sarcastic, but I like this idea a lot. Imagine a world where the advertising companies would have to build roads if they want to put up billboards, instead of the current world, where anyone can visually shit all over anything, and you're just forced to look at it. I like the precedent Twitter is setting.
  • Groxx 16y ago
    I dunno, I don't think I like the idea of a strictly-advertising-company owning the medium a huge amount of people communicate on. Can you imagine the TOS / privacy policy? Granted, that's what Facebook appears to be becoming... but I'm off that for good. And I too like how Twitter is handling this. Promoted tweets seem like the right setup for users, as you effectively have to request the ad to get it, but it's easier to find (and you know they're legit).
    • hugh3 16y ago
      I dunno, I don't think I like the idea of a strictly-advertising-company owning the medium a huge amount of people communicate on. You mean like gmail?
      • Groxx 16y ago
        Pretty much, yes, and +1 for a good catch :) But Google's been rather tried-and-true on issues like this (for most people's opinions), and they were first a crawler, and second an advertiser, even if they make most of their money from it now. They make that money because they made a great product. This implies their motivations are at least somewhat removed from a "lets start an ad platform!" company.