"Twitter has other plans when it comes to business accounts" - this is one of the key areas they need to monetise and fast.
Twitter is becoming or has become a great marketing tool. Keep it free / free of advertising for the general public but charge companies and celebrities to use it - Simple!
Re: Oneok suing Twitter - just shows that this company doesn't get/understand the open nature of social media - numpties...
Hugh Briss
· 2 months ago
Why should it be free of advertising? It's free. Do you seriously believe that you should have some kind of right to use a free service but expect it to be paid for by someone else? Do you have any clue what it costs to run a site like Twitter? Their employees aren't volunteers and no one is giving them gratis bandwidth.
If you use a service you should either pay for it or put up with a little advertising. Period.
Steven Grech
· 2 months ago
If the adverts don't interfere with Joe Blogs tweets and are related to the actual persons subject content then fine - just like GMail does i.e. discreet advertising at the top of your mail. There's no need to get into lecturing on hosting costs etc...there's a fine line between monetisation and user experience Hugh.
Anyway, from a business model perspective, [my opinion] Twitter are more likely to squeeze out more cash from companies and celebrities rather then Joe Blogs clicking on a targeted add within their profile. Period.
Jonha Revesencio
· 2 months ago
OneOk should have sued the ones that made the accounts and not Twitter.
Dave Zatz
· 2 months ago
How does Twitter decide who a well known individual (or site) is? I've got more followers than at least one verified account... But maybe since I don't tweet/blog exclusively about Web 2.0, I'm locked out.
steveabraham
· 2 months ago
What a bunch of morons. They want all the social networks to maintain their brand identity for them? Good luck with that.
xposure
· 2 months ago
I can't imagine this succeeding, the implications are massive.
I do wonder about the companies that do this, or is it just the layers earning a few $$ for themselves?
youareonvisual
· 2 months ago
Srsly?
Jon Keaty
· 2 months ago
Unfortunately a company has a legal obligation to be seen to defend its trademarks otherwise they will lose them - so I'm sure OneOK(TM) know this is a pointless waste of time but they have no choice.
Jack Yan
· 2 months ago
What a waste of time, suing Twitter when a simple email to the company would have solved the matter and kept everyone’s blood pressure down. Talk about overreacting, but I suppose in Oneokland, this is normal behaviour. Most people in most civilized countries would sort the matter out like adults.
karasma
· 2 months ago
Stan - Thanks for staying on top of this. This is a prime example of how presenting legal action can be sufficient in order to protect your reputation.
JMRL
· 2 months ago
fundamentally networks social are forced to have users do more next year to true to allow the use of marks in the niks records do not believe?
Elad Kehat
· 2 months ago
Yet another company with trigger happy lawyers who feel they have to justify their paychecks. Couldn't they just ask Twitter to suspend that account - before filing the lawsuit?
All Comments
Twitter is becoming or has become a great marketing tool. Keep it free / free of advertising for the general public but charge companies and celebrities to use it - Simple!
Re: Oneok suing Twitter - just shows that this company doesn't get/understand the open nature of social media - numpties...
If you use a service you should either pay for it or put up with a little advertising. Period.
Anyway, from a business model perspective, [my opinion] Twitter are more likely to squeeze out more cash from companies and celebrities rather then Joe Blogs clicking on a targeted add within their profile. Period.
I do wonder about the companies that do this, or is it just the layers earning a few $$ for themselves?