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Twitter is clearly not going to ask for a cut of ads not displayed on Twitter proper. To claim otherwise is a disingenuous scare tactic. Fred Wilson's responds
by mustpax 16y ago
Twitter is clearly not going to ask for a cut of ads not displayed on Twitter proper. To claim otherwise is a disingenuous scare tactic.
Fred Wilson's responds to the same effect in the comment thread as well:
the whole "we reserve the right to request a share of ad revenue" is designed to prevent people from going around the new rules. the rules themselves are pretty clear "only twitter can put promoted tweets in search results and timelines"
Seriously, I can't remember the last time I read a scripting.com post on HN that wasn't useless. I especially like the part in this post where Dave Winer plugs his invention of RSS for the millionth time, and states that Feedburner should have given him some money for monetizing RSS.
- tptacek 16y agoAnd exactly what would they have done with a percentage of Feedburner's revenue anyways? Endowed the RSS Foundation? It's a spec, not a business.
- jimboyoungblood 16y ago> Twitter is clearly not going to ask for a cut of ads not displayed on Twitter proper. To claim otherwise is a disingenuous scare tactic. It's not at all disingenuous. See http://dev.twitter.com/pages/api_terms http://dev.twitter.com/pages/api_terms Section IV.2(a) ... In cases where Twitter content is the basis (in whole or in part) of the advertising sale, we require you to compensate us (recoupable against any fees payable to Twitter for data licensing). For example, you may sell sponsorships or branding around gadgets or iframes that include Tweets and other customized visualizations of Twitter.