Twitter Ads

If you have a lot of followers on Twitter, you might be tempted to use a service like Magpie to monetize your tweets. If the ad is useful its good content. However, if its not the user will consider it spam and they might stop following you. Magpie to me seems just like when people started putting in Google and other text ads into their blog or podcast RSS feeds. It was really annoying and led me to unsubscribe to those feeds.

IMO Twitter and other social media sites like Facebook should be used to promote your main site rather than be a monetization engine themselves. Perhaps there are some folks out there that only use FB or Twitter and don’t have a web site and these kinds of solutions might be useful to them.

Local Twitter Users

Ever wonder if someone was tweeting near you? Use Twitter’s advanced search or construct a search like: near:Charlotte within:25mi and they show up!

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