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They could've tried making the official apps not suck before killing all others. While I agree that ads are important to their business model, it's not like the

They could've tried making the official apps not suck before killing all others. While I agree that ads are important to their business model, it's not like they couldn't've found an arrangement with third party client makers. As far as I remember they ended up charging multiples for API access of what would be reasonable to refinance with ads. Considering how badly their ads have traditionally performed I have trouble imagining them being any better of for it.

DaiPlusPlus 5y ago
> Considering how badly their ads have traditionally performed I pay for Twitter Blue and I still get ads :) Speaking for myself, but the majority of ads I see on Twitter are for the generic big-brands (Kraft, P&G, Mars, Ford, etc): stuff that I instantly mentally filter-out. I don't understand why mainstream American TV and web advertising is just so... simultaneously try-hard (with clearly massive production budgets) but also so awful, insipid messaging that insults the intelligence of those watching/reading. I'll admit I used to watch the Superbowl for the ads, but even those are now mostly unwatchable. ...or am I just getting older? ------------ ...but every so-often, Twitter will show me an uncannily perfect ad that's matched right-up with my interests and beneficial for everyone (I get to learn about a commercial product or service that I can genuinely benefit from, and the advertiser has my attention): but it's never for anything from a mainstream advertiser, it's usually something very niche (like specialty tooling, non-AWS PaaS services, etc). I actually want to see more of these kinds of ads (well, I'd still rather have zero ads considering I also pay for Twitter Blue), but Twitter just won't.
- dawnerd 5y ago
  I literally only pay for Blue just so I can hide the really annoying spaces button they added in (and conveniently paywalled its removal). I hope the app doesn't keep going down this path or I'll go back to using the web client and some custom scripts to pass notifications to me.

DaiPlusPlus 5y ago

> Considering how badly their ads have traditionally performed I pay for Twitter Blue and I still get ads :) Speaking for myself, but the majority of ads I see on Twitter are for the generic big-brands (Kraft, P&G, Mars, Ford, etc): stuff that I instantly mentally filter-out. I don't understand why mainstream American TV and web advertising is just so... simultaneously try-hard (with clearly massive production budgets) but also so awful, insipid messaging that insults the intelligence of those watching/reading. I'll admit I used to watch the Superbowl for the ads, but even those are now mostly unwatchable. ...or am I just getting older? ------------ ...but every so-often, Twitter will show me an uncannily perfect ad that's matched right-up with my interests and beneficial for everyone (I get to learn about a commercial product or service that I can genuinely benefit from, and the advertiser has my attention): but it's never for anything from a mainstream advertiser, it's usually something very niche (like specialty tooling, non-AWS PaaS services, etc). I actually want to see more of these kinds of ads (well, I'd still rather have zero ads considering I also pay for Twitter Blue), but Twitter just won't.

dawnerd 5y ago
I literally only pay for Blue just so I can hide the really annoying spaces button they added in (and conveniently paywalled its removal). I hope the app doesn't keep going down this path or I'll go back to using the web client and some custom scripts to pass notifications to me.