http://disqus.com/by/bfinch/enTue, 10 Mar 2009 16:41:48 -0000http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2009/03/twitter-charge-me-for-biz-tweets-instead-of-suspending-my-account.html#comment-7079646<p>The problem with the payroll service example is that as a consumer, I can't trust payroll service A to objectively rate their own services. Their recommendation is of a lot less value to me than a third party recommendation.</p><p>Commercial messages wind up being highly valuable for the sender (given the low cost of sending them), and almost worthless for the recipient. This is fine in an ad, where the cost of viewing the message is also very low. When you mix the message with actual content (email, tweets) the cost for the recipient shoots up dramatically. The message becomes spam.</p>bfinchTue, 10 Mar 2009 16:41:48 -0000http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2009/03/twitter-charge-me-for-biz-tweets-instead-of-suspending-my-account.html#comment-7079127<p>So ads on the twitter page but not in the comment stream? Sure, no problem. But that's fundamentally different than sending commercial messages over the service itself. As soon as the ads show up in my email (or in the tweets for twitter) they're spam. They diminish the value of the content stream they're polluting. </p>bfinchTue, 10 Mar 2009 16:27:11 -0000http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2009/03/twitter-charge-me-for-biz-tweets-instead-of-suspending-my-account.html#comment-7076969<p>Gabriel did lay out his point very clearly. I'm guessing it's not the presentation that amy is objecting to, but the premise itself. You and Gabriel seem to believe that twitter should allow spam on their network as long as the spammers pay for it, and that unsolicited commercial messages have some sort of value and aren't really spam if there's evidence the recipient is interested in whatever you're selling.</p><p>You're both WAY outside the mainstream here. Gabriel's account was probably suspended because the people he spammed reported him. I think that's a good indicator of how much "value" most people get out of these sort of messages, and more importantly for a business...how the recipient will perceive the source of those messages.</p>bfinchTue, 10 Mar 2009 15:12:50 -0000