Comments on: Be A Magpie : Make Money Through Twitter

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:20:34 +0000

Nope not me. If I want to advertise something, it would be a blog post, then tweeted.

By: Dennis Grubbs

Dennis Grubbs — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:07:26 +0000

I'm not sure how successful this will be, but I don't see as a "pay per post" kind of scheme. I see it more like a company trying to be the adsense of the twittering world.

I agree with the sentiment that I would want some mechanism to approve or disapprove of ads being displayed. But as an advertiser I believe the conversions would be better by not having a "sponsored link" type of label.

If this were implemented that way, then it would be good both for the advertiser and the publisher. But as far as I can see it does not work that way.

By: Rajeev Edmonds

Rajeev Edmonds — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:26:23 +0000

Magpie is the best way to kill your twitter account…

By: Ajith Edassery

Ajith Edassery — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:11:50 +0000

Interesting monetization models… However, I am not convinced if tweets have that 'read-me-now' kind of look n feel that people will be forced to read the ads. Most might not even read or care about them?

By: Dan Schulz

Dan Schulz — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:07:42 +0000

In a nutshell, not just no but hell no. Why? Because I use Twitter as a means of interacting with other people, not peddling products and services. If I wanted to do that, I'd create a stupid click-through link-advertising MFA scheme site.

But in order to do that, I'd first have to sell my soul, and I'm not about to do that.

By: LGR

LGR — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:46:53 +0000

Magpie is a little more intrusive than Twittad. I don't think I would want to submit my followers to that. Not to mention it will appear as a personal recommendation and I would want to make sure I would actually approve of the things that go out on my Tweets instead of letting someone else do it.