Comments on: Twitter’s Ad Experiment

By: Jennifer Windrum

Jennifer Windrum — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:08:25 +0000

I noticed it too. Didn’t bother me either. I am waiting, however, for the other shoe to fall, where advertising on Twitter will become intrusive. Hopefully some smart minds can figure out how to make money and keep the service in tact.

By: I Lost 104 pounds in 2 months!

I Lost 104 pounds in 2 months! — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:29:54 +0000

I think it looks good so far – not too intrusive. Frankly I’m surprised they’ve waited this long to start advertising on twitter – I mean it’s gotta be costly running the service for free, even with venture capitalists backing it up.

I’m hoping they keep the ads minimal, maybe 2-3 of these ads on a page, for advertisers I think it would be cool to target keywords and hashtags.

By: Maddie Grant

Maddie Grant — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:56:36 +0000

Yeah, I agree. Seems fine for now, unless they go all crazy with a la Facebook or Google.

By: Rob Bunting

Rob Bunting — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:55:15 +0000

I had noticed these and don’t think this format is very intrusive. My guess is this is a test that will end up being a precursor of three-line text ads, similar to those on Google AdWords, Yahoo, etc. and possibly with a graphic like in Facebook. Such ads would really be easy to sell and advertisers would love to be able to target ads based on the context of tweets and, if Twitter starts asking for more information when folks sign up, the demographics of the users.

You make a great point on not using Twitter.com very often, I saw stats (on Mashable I think) that 3/4 of tweets are from third party apps, but that still leaving a lot of page views for Twitter to monetize.