Comments on: Should Twitter sell ads on the Fail Whale?

By: Lally

Lally — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:48:12 +0000

This is America, baby. Everything else is for for sale. So why not Twitter’s soul?

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:22:22 +0000

I have to agree with Ike. Unless twitter starts posting all kinds of mad cookies to browsers to collect data and then keep track of every user hitting the site when it goes over capacity, (which I’m not even sure if that is possible if your server runs a glitch) there is no way of telling who your ad is serving to.

Plus most twitterazzi do move on to using third party apps so the big old Fail Whale swims mostly to frustrated newbies.

But hey since twitter is operating mostly on VC money and in 3yrs time if they don’t turn a profit they’ll be broke anyhow, so why not turn a profit on failure? Of course not only will twitter be bilking investors but also foolish advertisers (let’s call them suckers) who trust in blind banner ads generating responses.

By: Todd Jordan

Todd Jordan — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 22:08:40 +0000

Love the idea.
Why not capitalize on a now fairly rare occurrence. Heck, even if it was ads for Twitter clients.

By: Rich Becker

Rich Becker — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:00:30 +0000

I love the idea. I would love to buy an ad on it that reads: Twitter is down again, but there’s always “____” to give you lift. And Bob is right. Fried Eggs would be an awesome fit.

By: Bob Geller

Bob Geller — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:41:18 +0000

Yes, and the ones who buy the space should be Fried Eggs! (Website of same name)

By: Ike

Ike — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:29:33 +0000

My only caveat is you’d never have a firm grasp of who is experiencing it.

Many “Twitter faithful,” once they’ve been on the service a while, migrate to mobile and desktops apps and never see the whale anyway.