I really like the idea of companies paying a premium to use Twitter for advertising. :-)
What would motivate corporations to do that though, since they can do it for free today? Seems to me that one way or another, you end up having to somehow create a distinction between "personal" and "corporate" accounts. I understand there are problems with this proposal. It's a big problem for social networks in general. I'll be interested to see what happens. ________________________________ From: Doug Williams <d...@twitter.com> To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 3:52:56 PM Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: Proposal: account_type property Well thought out and logical Peter. This is exactly how we think about it internally. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Peter Denton <petermden...@gmail.com> wrote: I agree with the fact that it would be a good thing for the api developers to get as a tidbit, but if I were at Twitter Product I would decline this because it adds complexity to the registration process that does not translate to value for the users on twitter.com. If I am a one man shop design firm who does work with Nike, do you really want me to have to sit there and decide whether I am a "person" or a "business"? And after I have run the numbers and decided I am a business, my tone might be affected because I am now speaking on behalf oy "my business". It affects the core nature of twitter and doesnt give the user much. I think the definition of a business on twitter will emerge from companies paying twitter to be identified as such. Paying a premium on an identity itself validates the level of business, and twitter can then expsoe the social graph of the "businesses" on twitter. You then create a scenario where all those who want to clearly identify their species can do so in a non-intrusive manner that does not affect Jane User's, just-saw-Oprah-and-ready-to-tweet registration process. always just an opinion On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:15 PM, MPS <mpelzsher...@gmail.com> wrote: Sure, someone could develop a service for classifying twitter accounts, but that's less than ideal for a number of reasons: - introduces yet another 3rd party service that developers have to deal with - multiple account classification systems would result in less meaningful data - Twitter is the only company in a position to enable users to classify themselves - they could just make this a required dropdown in their signup form. I really think it would be enough just to have a flag that marks accounts as "Personal". Marking an account as Personal that is in fact used primarily for commercial purposes or driven by a bot could be considered a violation of Twitter's TOS. This would add huge value to users & developers. I hope someone @ Twitter is listening! On May 27, 11:34 am, Chad Etzel <jazzyc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Need to classify a twitter account? There's an app for that! ...maybe > -Chad > > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Sounds like a third party app to me. > > > 2009/5/27 Adam Covati <cov...@gmail.com> > > >> Hmm, could definitely be of some use. Of course, with no policing it > >> would not be entirely reliable, but I guess it could help in a number > >> of different ways. The difficult part is classifying things, I would > >> probably want a few more types > > >> 1. Personal - your standard user on twitter > >> 2. Business - similar to personal, but represents a company > >> 3. FeedBot - auto tweets from rss feed > >> 4. Bot - auto tweets based off of some other sort of information > >> stream > >> 5. I'm sure there are more... > > >> On May 27, 10:17 am, MPS <mpelzsher...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > I would like to propose an additional property on twitter accounts: > >> > account_type. > > >> > The main purpose for this would be to distinguish personal vs. > >> > business accounts. > > >> > This would be very useful for apps that want to target one or the > >> > other type of twitter account. > > >> > Who's with me on this? :-) > > >> > - Michael > > > -- > > Abraham Williams |http://the.hackerconundrum.com > > Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham > > Project |http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com > > This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
