Comments on: Magpie Threatens to Destroy Twitter

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:00:54 +0000

hmmm before and right after I read your article I was presented with adsense monetization on this blog. That’s OK though, we all need to use our real estate wisely. I don’t know if magpie will make it, but I do know that we all need to understand what value is worth. It is worth different things to different people. I don’t where we got the idea that sharing information should be free in this world. I do know some insightful blog posts that are written, this post above did get me to this site, so I would infer from this that you have your site optimized for traffic well. That had to come at a price I would assume. So maybe we think magpie is repulsive to a twitter community. but we should just insist that twitter give us the opportunity to “block” magpie if we choose. If a user sends us a tweet with magpie, and we find that distasteful, block the user and dm him/her saying, “hey, magpie or your ads are distasteful, now I’m blocking you.” Isn’t that easy? Anyone in here know how to turn off the adsense on this blog. Not even relevant to this discussion.

By: Enrique Gutierrez

Enrique Gutierrez — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:27:15 +0000

Thanks for including us in your post! I sincerely can’t stand magpie & my timeline is free from those that use it.

I’d hope everyone would do the same.

By: Frank Carr

Frank Carr — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:38:26 +0000

While I don't have any problem with using the Internet for marketing, using someone else's free service to make money uninvited is kind of low. Maybe the Magpie folks are hoping for Twitter to buy them out with some of their VC money. Who knows? My observation of Twitter so far is that it's mostly a place for people to post inane personal information and cloaked affiliate links. No, I don't care what your dog had for breakfast and No, I'm not going to join this great new marketing membership site you 'just found.' Frank Carr’s last blog post..Earn Online Cash with a Niche Adsense Blog

By: Nicole R.

Nicole R. — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:40:13 +0000

One of the great things about Twitter- the unfollow feature. I unfollow people once I realize they participate in this type of stuff. I know I’m not the only one who does this, so I don’t even understand how Magpie stands to grow. They’re like online ‘telemarketing’ firm and I don’t need the nonsense clogging up myfeed.

By: Tamal Anwar

Tamal Anwar — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:17:08 +0000

Hello Mihaela, I stumble upon on this post and I see you’ve put a strong message against Magpie. Magpie is the PayPerPost of twitter and it has to come some day. Paid per post market places are annoying for lots of people and the big names are against it too! But the fact is, it’s now okay for a mass audience because the majority of big blogger revenue comes from them.

Talking about magpie, I thing the concept they bring in is the most revolutionary monetization method for twitte and. It gives the equal chance to both twitterer and the advertiser.

Twitter’s not doing anything about it because twitter wants money just like every company wants. Someday twitter will come with their hidden monetization method and that may annoy you a lot… should you quit twitter then? off course not!

Everyone is loving twitter money making concepts like TwittAd, Magpie, TheBranch and a lot of them I shared on this post: http://blogkori.com/a-step-by-step-guide-for-new-twitter-users-last-part

The thing we can learn here is that, if advertisers are so much disparate, placing ads in our tweets, then why shouldn’t we use twitter for our blogs?

Tamal Anwar’s last blog post..“A” for Articles, not Adsense in blogging

By: Wilson Pon

Wilson Pon — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:23:56 +0000

Well, it might seem hard for Magpie for destroy Twitter, at least in this few years…However, if Twitter lets the spammers keep spamming all around the network, then it’s about time to say, “Ta ta” for sure, Mig.

By: Chelle

Chelle — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:35:47 +0000

It is hard to say why Twitter does not take action against sites like Magpie, but I think they probably should. Otherwise it could potentially get so bad it will just be mostly spammers spamming each other, kinda how myspace and facebook are now these days. Chelle’s last blog post..How Do You Spend Your Time Prospecting and Marketing?

By: Twittonary

Twittonary — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:19:04 +0000

Its funny because that seems to be one of the main topics I get sent emails about.. “how do I make money on twitter”. I think people have lost focus of what social networking is in that case. Its really about building foundations and making connection which in turn can present you with new customers or clients. Making a few cents here and there from a service just cannot make up for the connections and relationships built.

By: Mihaela Lica

Mihaela Lica — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:53:59 +0000

James, you really don’t want me to review your startup. I was aware of its existence, but I didn’t name it here because I do not consider it as low class as Magpie. Still, my first statement stays: if someone does put ads on twitter, then let it be twitter themselves.

I will give you a free PR advice now: NEVER comment on a blog post that promotes/ hammers your competitors. It makes you look desperate for attention, which raises serious questions about your business.

By: Mihaela Lica

Mihaela Lica — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:51:13 +0000

Thank you for the link to your review, Lucretia. We really need to raise awareness about these issues – I am afraid that twitter will be turned into a crappy place for ads and the like and I just started to like it… I hope Magpie type of services will not succeed, or this will really mean the end of twitter.