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Well I for one am actually looking forward to relevant ads. On Twitter I've been shown everything from industrial mining supplies, nipple covers, psychology re

• aniforprez 3y ago
  Twitter is positively inundating me with "ads" from people boosting their twitter profiles, all dedicated to crypto, health "hacks", finance gurus, yoga teachers etc etc. I feel like Apple ads were the ones I saw most and now I've not seen an Apple ad in over a week. It really feels like advertisers are all pulling out
• astrange 3y ago
  That's always happened to me; I think if you follow any doctors, it shows you ads for medical conferences, but I can't tell if that's Twitter messing up or the people placing the ads setting the display audiences wrong.
  • sangnoir 3y ago
    Did Twitter always show you the same drop-shipper ad multiple times on the same thread? I'd be mad if I were an advertiser on Twitter, some of those ad impressions feel fraudulent to me, as a user.
    • astrange 3y ago
      It didn't have ads in threads before, did it? So I think no because there were fewer spots.
• iopq 3y ago
  You get ads on Twitter? Strange, my adblocker still works on the web version
• data-ottawa 3y ago
  I’m finding Apple News actually provides me ads I click, and Reddit did briefly too. Neither of those apps ask nearly what Threads is asking. They are more tailored towards the content being shown though, and I turn down permissions whenever I can. Anecdotally I’ve never purposefully clicked an ad on Twitter, I think either the buyers or the algorithms are off there.