gawker.com— They might be your tweets, but the money is all Twitter's: The microblogging service must now get a cut of any advertising sold against Twitter content, even your own content. Nice racket.
May 25, 2010View in Crawl 4
The main part of the article:"In cases where Twitter content is the basis (in whole or in part) of the advertising sale, we require you to compensate us (recoupable against any fees payable to Twitter for data licensing)."Well, that makes that easy. I run a website that integrates twitter, RSS feeds, and community voting (hello digg!). Time for me to start coding out the twitter integration. It's more trouble than it's worth. I can't risk being sued for the residuals at some point.
I think you're misinterpreting. Twitter isn't going to rape content creators for choosing to syndicate their content to Twitter. It's those who rely on the Twitter API to power an application or website that Twitter wants a share from.
Twitter had to find a way to make money at some point. I suppose if they're providing the platform for your content to be shared and you're profiting from your content specific to their platform, they're entitled to something... right?
"So let's say one of Twitter's more popular writers decides to republish his tweets to his own website, so that he might sell some ads and profit off his own work. Well, it looks like Twitter is entitled to a cut of that money too." What if I write some code to post updates to my own site which also duplicates out to Twitter? I'm not pulling from twitter I'm just telling you on Twitter that I made a status update on my site. No twitter feed code or graphics are loaded on my site. If you say money should be given to Twitter also in this case then where do you draw the line? What if you are posting the title of your blog posts to twitter? That's the same thing its just you have more content at your source. Do you find the percentage of 140chars in the rest of your posts and use that percentage for how much you should pay?
jsch1l7zMay 26, 2010
The main part of the article:"In cases where Twitter content is the basis (in whole or in part) of the advertising sale, we require you to compensate us (recoupable against any fees payable to Twitter for data licensing)."Well, that makes that easy. I run a website that integrates twitter, RSS feeds, and community voting (hello digg!). Time for me to start coding out the twitter integration. It's more trouble than it's worth. I can't risk being sued for the residuals at some point.
midnightfoxMay 26, 2010
and we thought Facebook was bad, man the tweet is going to hit the fan on this one. . . .
3the3dude3May 26, 2010
I think you're misinterpreting. Twitter isn't going to rape content creators for choosing to syndicate their content to Twitter. It's those who rely on the Twitter API to power an application or website that Twitter wants a share from.
robert99aMay 26, 2010
wow, some people still use Twitter?
mascotsMay 26, 2010
Imagine that, Gawker taking a story and twisting it to seem like something completely different.
socialstacyMay 26, 2010
Twitter had to find a way to make money at some point. I suppose if they're providing the platform for your content to be shared and you're profiting from your content specific to their platform, they're entitled to something... right?
dralezeroMay 26, 2010
"So let's say one of Twitter's more popular writers decides to republish his tweets to his own website, so that he might sell some ads and profit off his own work. Well, it looks like Twitter is entitled to a cut of that money too." What if I write some code to post updates to my own site which also duplicates out to Twitter? I'm not pulling from twitter I'm just telling you on Twitter that I made a status update on my site. No twitter feed code or graphics are loaded on my site. If you say money should be given to Twitter also in this case then where do you draw the line? What if you are posting the title of your blog posts to twitter? That's the same thing its just you have more content at your source. Do you find the percentage of 140chars in the rest of your posts and use that percentage for how much you should pay?
mrpeachMay 29, 2010
Click through contract vs copyright? My money is on copyright.