Twitter to Start Selling Followers

readwriteweb.com — Advertisers will be allowed to purchase placement in lists of "who to follow" recommendations targeted to specific users on Twitter, according to the latest report by Peter Kafka ... Sep 27, 2010 View in Crawl 4

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oboy Sep 28, 2010

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RIP Twitter.

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hipman Sep 28, 2010

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You wish.

elwoodblues Sep 28, 2010

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and this is different to digg v4, how?

ClinicsOfWorld Sep 28, 2010

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Another great website falling prey to advertisers.

cheloan Sep 28, 2010

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That's why all the follower app's Aouth has been suspended. Money will win this game !?

quade Sep 28, 2010

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I wonder how long it will be before people start auto-blocking all of those paid followers.

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hipman Sep 28, 2010

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Or they just...you know...not follow them?.

agmlauncher Sep 28, 2010

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As long as the ads don't come in the form of unsolicited updates in those user's entries I don't see the problem with it. It would be quite annoying to be following a select view "ad valuable" users and then get spam advertisement updates that appear to come from them.

phpdreamer Sep 28, 2010