Twitter...?

[bobquasit]

I saw an article saying that Twitter is still ad-free...but probably won't stay that way. So I'm thinking, maybe I should get a Twitter account just so I HAVE one. I wouldn't use it, but I'd hate to end up needing one later and being stuck with some sort of second-class ad-covered account because I was a late adopter.

Comments

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

Twitter doesn't have ads... it has spam. Ads sent out as twitter sends.

Actually Twitter, from some reports, is dying, but lying about it. They count millions of inactive accounts (like LJ has and does) that haven't been used in months, as being users.

Since the use of it for advertising via messages has escalated more folks are dropping it. Its not the next great thing, from what I'm hearing, and many early adopters of it have dropped it entirely.

[klyfix.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I recall seeing in one of my web comics (Megatokyo) that most of the cartoonist's commentary now goes on Twitter as opposed to being posted on site save for when Twitter went "boom" a while back. I don't like the idea of having to monitor another site for such things; I don't think I've ever been to the Twitter site and I've no intention of signing up for it, so if it dies I'm not going to mourn.

[klyfix.livejournal.com]

I'm probably weird as an Internet user in that I actually don't mind ads. I recognize that something has to pay the bills; after all "Information wants to be free" maybe, (although David Gerrold as I recall noted that "Information doesn't want to be free; information doesn't want anything.") but the transmitting of said information still costs money and I don't mind if people get some payment for their efforts or even for their investments.

What I do mind is obnoxious advertising like pop-ups and pop-unders and spam and nasty stuff. The wildly inappropriate or confused ads and recommendations are more of an amusement. Hmm, and excessive Flash animations can be problematic for those with slower connections; can a person on dial-up even remotely effectively surf the web these days?