Indeed. Targeted, and an audience that sticks around because what is offered is valuable to them (tweets). This type of profile is even more valuable to advertisers.

Good point, part of the reason users need to build up reputable profiles, so advertisers will want to advertise on their stream.

Excellent point, it is a source of immediate market information. So while it isn’t your style to put ads in your stream, what about buying ads in other peoples streams?

Do any of the models presented fit within your Twitter style as a publisher or consumer of tweets (or visit profile pages as in #1) Warren?

(BTW, my son’s middle name is the same as your first, not a common name for sure)

My “NO RULES” philosophy says “go ahead and try whatever.. we can follow or unfollow based on what we want” .. so I’d never say “don’t do this”

However, it feels like selling out for the quick buck instead of building trust and rapport for huge returns later.

Not sure what to tell you on the CommentLuv, If you are registered with them, it should work fine to pick a blogpost.

Thanks again.

Thanks for dropping by. You present an interesting analogy. Building closer to home (internet lingo), just as people use email for different reasons, people use Twitter for different reasons.

So, for those using Twitter for business, would you agree that it makes sense for them to post *related* information to their business or industry? If followers understand and expect that, then it is acceptable?

If I think of my twitter stream and profile as a business site, I reflect on my dad’s saloon, he had what was appropriate to his customers … beer signs for the beers behind his bar. He still never pitched them when he was talking over the bar. He answered their questions about the products he had on offer.

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But most of the “deals” I see are not applicable out side of North America, so that probably colours my view.

There are some streams that are a constant list of products for sale… they follow me, I look at their profile and move on. But spam works (or there would be so much of it)… and some of these streams have a lot of followers – I just don’t know why.

BTW: When I tried to change the blog post with the ConnectLuv pull-down it froze FireFox and I had to kill it. Never seen FF killed that way. I tried it again and got the same result.

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