Note to Magpie, that crunching sound? Yeah it’s your business model being crumpled up and shot for a three-pointer into file 13.
Yesterday 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 service.
The wait is over folks, well if you use Firefox to read your tweets:
Magpie is a recently introduced service that inserts advertising into a users list of posts on Twitter. Scarecrow is a greasemonkey script that will stop these ads being displayed on your view of Twitter allowing you to “opt out” of the service. Other users have suggested simply unfollowing users who use the Magpie [...]
Scarecrow: Ad Blocking Script for Twitter
Stuart Robertson
Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:12:55 GMT
Ouch. I’m sure it wouldn’t be hard for any of the Twitter clients to add “block ads” functions. If you read tweets via RSS, a simple pass through Yahoo Pipes and a little filter for #magpie would knock those out too.
Yes, if someone I follow and pay close attention to (in my TweetDeck watch group) starts up with Magpie, chances are I’m going to unfollow them. I can’t say I will because, well maybe that person is someone I really like to hear from.
In any case, this might be a case of Twitter purists raising a stink over nothing or could be a message from the populace: I don’t want ads in my Twitter stream.
Only time will tell. Heck yah the temptation of six grand a month to basically do nothing is huge. I’m not going to bite though.
The potential risk outweighs the reward.
On a final note, has anyone who has written about Magpie heard from them? I’d think if your company’s plan is getting shot at from all sides you’d want to reach out to a few folks and tell your side of the story.
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