Why the Quick Bar (“dickbar”) is still so offensive

Re:Why the Quick Bar (“dickbar”) is still so offensive by Aaronontheweb on Sunday March 20, 2011 @07:51PM (#2347796)

It's not just the dickbar that's offensive - it's the fact that its release along with the announcement that Twitter is going to try to limit the development of other clients against their API that really makes it distasteful.

I understand that they have a need to monetize - I get it, but to do so in such a ham-handed way really bothers me.

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Re:Why the Quick Bar (“dickbar”) is still so offensive by robryan on Monday March 21, 2011 @09:44AM (#2349588)

Was just thinking about this, it would be great if they did do targeted advertising and did it through an API, so 3rd party clients could choose to include ads and both Twitter and the 3rd party takes a cut, or allow them to continue without advertising but ban other advertising meaning that they can only monetise by selling the app or including Twitter ads.

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Re:Why the Quick Bar (“dickbar”) is still so offensive by Aaronontheweb on Monday March 21, 2011 @01:12PM (#2350588)

I think this is an AWESOME idea.

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