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No complaints? The sponsored tweets haven't annoyed you yet? The inability to use some twitter clients because Twitter refuses to give out more licenses hasn'

No complaints? The sponsored tweets haven't annoyed you yet? The inability to use some twitter clients because Twitter refuses to give out more licenses hasn't annoyed you yet? I use Twitter a lot, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't jump at the first chance of a real alternative.

jmathai 14y ago
I haven't found the sponsored tweets annoying at all. I mostly don't even notice them. I scan my feed and I only pay attention to the tweets which interest me. Everything else could be an ad as far as I'm concerned. The number of sponsored ads don't seem high enough to make me feel like it's annoying. As for Twitter clients. Eh, not sure I care so much. I just need a decent client which doesn't suck. I think their recent decision sort of suck but as a user I don't know that I care too much.
- Jaigus 14y ago
  Yes, the (few) sponsored ads seem no different than any other tweet you wouldn't care about anyway. I for one am quite accustomed to sifting through things this way, the ads don't seem like much of an extra burden, at least to me.
- ramykhuffash 14y ago
  This is exactly how the normal consumers look at these things. Outside of my tech life, no one cares at all. They just joined Twitter, years after it was launched, because they wanted to see what interesting people & celebs were saying. Heck, the probably even heard about Twitter from an advert or some sort of marketing material, so adverts within Twitter won't bother them/me.
- mehrzad 14y ago
  I feel like we as nerds should think in the long term. Communication should be controlled by the users. Think about all the companies who were screwed over by Facebook's "Likegate." Decentralization is why I prefer Tent and IRC. App.net seems acceptable as well because of the open nature, though it is centralized.
  - jmathai 14y ago
    How's it open? People keep saying that but there's nothing open about it except the creators keep saying it's open.
klapinat0r 14y ago
FYI: They don't show up in the Twitter's OSX app, and neither on their Windows Phone integration or their official WP app.

jmathai 14y ago

I haven't found the sponsored tweets annoying at all. I mostly don't even notice them. I scan my feed and I only pay attention to the tweets which interest me. Everything else could be an ad as far as I'm concerned. The number of sponsored ads don't seem high enough to make me feel like it's annoying. As for Twitter clients. Eh, not sure I care so much. I just need a decent client which doesn't suck. I think their recent decision sort of suck but as a user I don't know that I care too much.

Jaigus 14y ago
Yes, the (few) sponsored ads seem no different than any other tweet you wouldn't care about anyway. I for one am quite accustomed to sifting through things this way, the ads don't seem like much of an extra burden, at least to me.
ramykhuffash 14y ago
This is exactly how the normal consumers look at these things. Outside of my tech life, no one cares at all. They just joined Twitter, years after it was launched, because they wanted to see what interesting people & celebs were saying. Heck, the probably even heard about Twitter from an advert or some sort of marketing material, so adverts within Twitter won't bother them/me.
mehrzad 14y ago
I feel like we as nerds should think in the long term. Communication should be controlled by the users. Think about all the companies who were screwed over by Facebook's "Likegate." Decentralization is why I prefer Tent and IRC. App.net seems acceptable as well because of the open nature, though it is centralized.
- jmathai 14y ago
  How's it open? People keep saying that but there's nothing open about it except the creators keep saying it's open.

klapinat0r 14y ago

FYI: They don't show up in the Twitter's OSX app, and neither on their Windows Phone integration or their official WP app.