Comments on: Twitter vs. Magpie: Wait aren’t Magpie’s supposed to be one of the most annoying birds? http://trishussey.com/2008/11/03/twitter-vs-magpie-wait-arent-magpies-supposed-to-be-one-of-the-most-annoying-birds/ Social Media News, WordPress Info and Opinion from Tris Hussey author of Create Your Own Blog and Using WordPress Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:14:11 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Cory O'Brien http://trishussey.com/2008/11/03/twitter-vs-magpie-wait-arent-magpies-supposed-to-be-one-of-the-most-annoying-birds/comment-page-1/#comment-4653 Cory O'Brien Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:19:38 +0000 http://www.trishussey.com/2008/11/03/twitter-vs-magpie-wait-arent-magpies-supposed-to-be-one-of-the-most-annoying-birds/#comment-4653 I'm glad someone else gets the IM Conversation analogy, because that's exactly what I thought of when I first encountered Magpie. Magpie is not like a banner ad that sits off to the side and makes itself known as advertising. (I could actually see the scenario you lay out above working well, with ads next to the feed based on what you're tweeting about, ala AdSense) Instead, it tries to sneak into your conversations and get clicks through 'endorsements'. It's not a direction I want to see Twitter go in, and I'm glad the community is speaking out against it and services like it. http://thefutureofads.com/2008/11/03/magpie-tries-to-make-twitter-an-ad-network-fails/ <abbr><em><abbr><em>Cory O'Brien´s last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheFutureOfAds/~3/442296277/" rel="nofollow">America Loves Free Stuff</a></em></abbr></abbr></em> I’m glad someone else gets the IM Conversation analogy, because that’s exactly what I thought of when I first encountered Magpie. Magpie is not like a banner ad that sits off to the side and makes itself known as advertising. (I could actually see the scenario you lay out above working well, with ads next to the feed based on what you’re tweeting about, ala AdSense) Instead, it tries to sneak into your conversations and get clicks through ‘endorsements’. It’s not a direction I want to see Twitter go in, and I’m glad the community is speaking out against it and services like it.

http://thefutureofads.com/2008/11/03/magpie-tries-to-make-twitter-an-ad-network-fails/

Cory O’Brien´s last blog post..America Loves Free Stuff

]]> By: Well that didn’t take long: Scarecrow Greasemonkey Script Blocks Magpie | Internet Life | A View from the Isle http://trishussey.com/2008/11/03/twitter-vs-magpie-wait-arent-magpies-supposed-to-be-one-of-the-most-annoying-birds/comment-page-1/#comment-4643 Well that didn’t take long: Scarecrow Greasemonkey Script Blocks Magpie | Internet Life | A View from the Isle Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:07:19 +0000 http://www.trishussey.com/2008/11/03/twitter-vs-magpie-wait-arent-magpies-supposed-to-be-one-of-the-most-annoying-birds/#comment-4643 [...] Magpie was a hot topic on Twitter. Although I didn’t mention it in my post about Magpie, there were tweets about wanting to block the ads and [...] [...] Magpie was a hot topic on Twitter. Although I didn’t mention it in my post about Magpie, there were tweets about wanting to block the ads and [...]

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