Comments on: Magpie: The Fastest Unfollow in the Midwest http://bub.blicio.us/magpie-how-to-get-your-readers-to-unfollow/ Covering the social economy driving the new Web Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:34:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Library clips :: Roundup : Tweetbacks, Tweetsuite, Magpie, Twittertise, 2tweet :: January :: 2009 http://bub.blicio.us/magpie-how-to-get-your-readers-to-unfollow/comment-page-1/#comment-77140 Library clips :: Roundup : Tweetbacks, Tweetsuite, Magpie, Twittertise, 2tweet :: January :: 2009 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:00:50 +0000 http://bub.blicio.us/?p=111111444#comment-77140 [...] Magpie - ads / monetising tweets, also see Twitad [via b] [...] [...] Magpie – ads / monetising tweets, also see Twitad [via b] [...]

]]> By: Enrique Gutierrez http://bub.blicio.us/magpie-how-to-get-your-readers-to-unfollow/comment-page-1/#comment-76546 Enrique Gutierrez Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:07:17 +0000 http://bub.blicio.us/?p=111111444#comment-76546 Re: "how is it any different than the sponsored blog posts" - easy. Twitter is a free service for users, blogs typically have a cost associated with them, justifying some level of advertising. Even more so, it's common practice for the select few bloggers to have a gazillion readers to support themselves by blogging - as though it were a magazine. If Twitter wanted to ruin it's service with embedded ads every so often, it would do so. Thanks to jackasses that use this service, now they don't have to. Just my take on it. Re: “how is it any different than the sponsored blog posts” – easy. Twitter is a free service for users, blogs typically have a cost associated with them, justifying some level of advertising. Even more so, it’s common practice for the select few bloggers to have a gazillion readers to support themselves by blogging – as though it were a magazine.

If Twitter wanted to ruin it’s service with embedded ads every so often, it would do so. Thanks to jackasses that use this service, now they don’t have to. Just my take on it.

]]> By: Kate http://bub.blicio.us/magpie-how-to-get-your-readers-to-unfollow/comment-page-1/#comment-76540 Kate Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:49:14 +0000 http://bub.blicio.us/?p=111111444#comment-76540 It's my face in that screen image reflecting the negative response to Magpie. Here's the reason why I don't like it: It's an unsolicited sales pitch. I prescribe to many, many folks for different reasons. One guy? I like his marketing industry information. I follow another person (a celebrity) because I like how he describes his travel destinations. I follow several people because they're "real life" friends and I'm interested in the comings and goings of their lives. All of these people provide specific content, but even they vary from time to time. Sometimes the marketing guy makes a pop music reference. Sometimes the celeb mentions a training tip. Sometimes my friends like to talk shop on twitter. And that's okay with me. Those nuances have a way of building a better relationship between twitterites (or whatever you may call them). But rarely do these folks tweet something that smacks of "sales pitch," and especially "sales-pitch-that's-wasting-your-time-and-making-me-money." It’s my face in that screen image reflecting the negative response to Magpie.

Here’s the reason why I don’t like it: It’s an unsolicited sales pitch. I prescribe to many, many folks for different reasons. One guy? I like his marketing industry information. I follow another person (a celebrity) because I like how he describes his travel destinations. I follow several people because they’re “real life” friends and I’m interested in the comings and goings of their lives. All of these people provide specific content, but even they vary from time to time.

Sometimes the marketing guy makes a pop music reference. Sometimes the celeb mentions a training tip. Sometimes my friends like to talk shop on twitter.

And that’s okay with me. Those nuances have a way of building a better relationship between twitterites (or whatever you may call them).

But rarely do these folks tweet something that smacks of “sales pitch,” and especially “sales-pitch-that’s-wasting-your-time-and-making-me-money.”

]]> By: RadioCarla http://bub.blicio.us/magpie-how-to-get-your-readers-to-unfollow/comment-page-1/#comment-76539 RadioCarla Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:31:43 +0000 http://bub.blicio.us/?p=111111444#comment-76539 I'm actually one of the Twitter users you see on the screen shot (last one who called it "Magpie crap"). I understand wanting to monetize your blog or web site. I can see using Twitter to drive traffic to said blog or web site. But, I'm not sure about using your 140 characters to spam your followers, especially when the ratio seems to be one spam tweet to every ten or so real tweets. The fact that @Cincinnati_News has disappeared on Twitter seems to back up the theory that the monetizing was the only purpose of the Twitter account. I’m actually one of the Twitter users you see on the screen shot (last one who called it “Magpie crap”). I understand wanting to monetize your blog or web site. I can see using Twitter to drive traffic to said blog or web site. But, I’m not sure about using your 140 characters to spam your followers, especially when the ratio seems to be one spam tweet to every ten or so real tweets. The fact that @Cincinnati_News has disappeared on Twitter seems to back up the theory that the monetizing was the only purpose of the Twitter account.

]]> By: Julie http://bub.blicio.us/magpie-how-to-get-your-readers-to-unfollow/comment-page-1/#comment-76538 Julie Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:29:13 +0000 http://bub.blicio.us/?p=111111444#comment-76538 I'm one of the people who got caught up in the Cincinnati News controversy, I guess. For me it wasn't that they were using Magpie, it was that I was seeing things daily (if not more often) combined with multiple updates in a row-- sometime as many as 10-15. It was a textbook case of how NOT to use Twitter effectively. The Magpie ads wouldn't have bothered me if they were less frequent, or if Cincinnati_News actually contributed more to the discourse besides bad news with no commenting on other tweets. It's I’m one of the people who got caught up in the Cincinnati News controversy, I guess. For me it wasn’t that they were using Magpie, it was that I was seeing things daily (if not more often) combined with multiple updates in a row– sometime as many as 10-15. It was a textbook case of how NOT to use Twitter effectively. The Magpie ads wouldn’t have bothered me if they were less frequent, or if Cincinnati_News actually contributed more to the discourse besides bad news with no commenting on other tweets. It’s

]]> By: Julie http://bub.blicio.us/magpie-how-to-get-your-readers-to-unfollow/comment-page-1/#comment-76537 Julie Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:27:20 +0000 http://bub.blicio.us/?p=111111444#comment-76537 I'm one of the people who got caught up in the Cincinnati News controversy, I guess. For me it wasn't that they were using Magpie, it was that I was seeing things daily (if not more often) combined with multiple updates in a row-- sometime as many as 10-15. It was a textbook case of how NOT to use Twitter effectively. The Magpie ads wouldn't have bothered me if they were less frequent, or if Cincinnati_News actually contributed more to the discourse besides bad news with no commenting on other tweets. It's all how you use the product. I’m one of the people who got caught up in the Cincinnati News controversy, I guess. For me it wasn’t that they were using Magpie, it was that I was seeing things daily (if not more often) combined with multiple updates in a row– sometime as many as 10-15. It was a textbook case of how NOT to use Twitter effectively. The Magpie ads wouldn’t have bothered me if they were less frequent, or if Cincinnati_News actually contributed more to the discourse besides bad news with no commenting on other tweets. It’s all how you use the product.

]]> By: michellelentz http://bub.blicio.us/magpie-how-to-get-your-readers-to-unfollow/comment-page-1/#comment-76536 michellelentz Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:21:11 +0000 http://bub.blicio.us/?p=111111444#comment-76536 Eric: I see your point, and I just had this conversation with my husband over lunch. For me, it's a bit different with Twitter than blogs. I'm generally subscribing to a feed for some sort of personal interaction. When that personal interaction becomes an ad more often than content, I take issue. I feel the same way about those whose Twitter feeds are nothing but "new blog post". I think it's a personal thing. I also believe, as demonstrated by Adam in these comments, that Magpie can be used in more subtle, less obtrusive ways. Eric:
I see your point, and I just had this conversation with my husband over lunch.
For me, it’s a bit different with Twitter than blogs. I’m generally subscribing to a feed for some sort of personal interaction. When that personal interaction becomes an ad more often than content, I take issue. I feel the same way about those whose Twitter feeds are nothing but “new blog post”.

I think it’s a personal thing. I also believe, as demonstrated by Adam in these comments, that Magpie can be used in more subtle, less obtrusive ways.

]]> By: michellelentz http://bub.blicio.us/magpie-how-to-get-your-readers-to-unfollow/comment-page-1/#comment-76535 michellelentz Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:18:16 +0000 http://bub.blicio.us/?p=111111444#comment-76535 Adam - I think that's fantastic and once every 4 days is much more subtle than several times per day. The feed in question was running Magpie ads so often it was intrusive. I support subtle. As Magpie says,"keep your followers happy and don’t risk annoying them with too many magpie-tweets." You obviously succeed at this, which means that if more folks can follow directions, this sort of monetization might work. Cheers! Adam – I think that’s fantastic and once every 4 days is much more subtle than several times per day. The feed in question was running Magpie ads so often it was intrusive.
I support subtle. As Magpie says,”keep your followers happy and don’t risk annoying them with too many magpie-tweets.” You obviously succeed at this, which means that if more folks can follow directions, this sort of monetization might work.
Cheers!

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