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If you want to have fun with Twitter ads, block the advertiser whenever you see them. After two weeks or so you start to get really.. different stuff.
by pluc 5y ago
If you want to have fun with Twitter ads, block the advertiser whenever you see them. After two weeks or so you start to get really.. different stuff.
- dredmorbius 5y agoHowso? (Not on Twitter, can't run the experiment myself.)
- esnard 5y agoCan you elaborate? I'm not sure if this is something I would prefer to current ads, or something I would want to avoid.
- d3nj4l 5y agoBack when I used to use Twitter is found it funny. I used to get cranks and hustlers with the occasional “Why is this random personal tweet promoted?” experience mixed in.
- pluc 5y agoOnce you block out the "big advertisers", you get advertisements from smaller companies or even individuals.
- alias_neo 5y agoWhen you say "block", do you mean Twitter block the account which is the Advertiser?
- pluc 5y agoYes, so that Twitter in their algorithm figures out that you can't consume this particular ad, it finds others. The more you block, the smaller the pool of advertisers is.
- alias_neo 5y agoNice, I have a new Twitter game to play, thanks.
- plushpuffin 5y agoBlock the account whose tweet is being promoted, and/or the account promoting it (sometimes there will be tiny text saying "promoted by"). You'll never see tweets from that brand again, whether promoted or unpromoted. After a few weeks of this you'll get some pretty strange tweets from really obscure brands. You will however still regularly see promoted tweets from financial services companies, because there are apparently an infinite number of them.
- extr 5y agoI've been using twitter since 2009 and do this religiously, I have literally thousands of corporate accounts blocked. My ads at this point are incredibly niche, bordering on surreal. Sometimes I will retweet them just because they're so absurd.
- moneywoes 5y agoAny highlights?