3 ms·

>>every other "reply" is an ad for a product completely unrelated to whatever tweet it's replying to. I find that very ironic. For years I have seen people co

>>every other "reply" is an ad for a product completely unrelated to whatever tweet it's replying to. I find that very ironic. For years I have seen people complain about "target ads" and companies like twitter spying on everyone. Now if they are not targeted some how that is also bad... Amazing.... Though I will say I have seen a dozen HPE GreenLake ads on twitter and still have no idea what they are trying to sell me... >> instead a slow degradation of quality (ironic given that twitter is being marketed as the "#1 most accurate source of information on the internet") The top tweet under every "More Tweets" section is always a childish Musk tweet with a 420 or 69 reference in it These are not mutually exclusive... I find new twitter to be very informative and entertaining

8ytecoder 4y ago
You are talking about two different types of ads. “We” hate targeted ads. “We” love context specific ads. When I search for “best EV to buy in 2023”, I’m more than happy to see a few results ads from Ford and VW. (That was the entire premise of Google when they started). But, learning that I’m interested in an EV because I messaged a friend on Instagram about it, or because I’m 35-45 years old, living in a “liberal city”, “making more than 200k”, and a “tree hugger” is what pisses people off - because that requires intense data collection about me and everything I do. “We” like relevant ads and to be specific context-specific ads.
- ipaddr 4y ago
  Getting context specific ads from a 140 character tweet is asking for the impossible.