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Re:Ask HN: Review my Twitter App (ReTweetize.com) by danw on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @05:36AM (#866388)
Your service is opt-in, people choose to RT your messages. That's seemingly fine.

The problem is twitter is a broadcast service. If one of the people I follow chooses to use your service then I also get to see your advert. Admittedly this is why it benefits you.

It is however highly irritating. I'd rather not have to unfollow an otherwise interesting friend because of a service like yours.

Re:Ask HN: Review my Twitter App (ReTweetize.com) by ankeshk on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @05:48AM (#866401)
I get the problem you have with RTs.

But thats why I've added tools that helps in getting rid of abusive / spammy messages from the network.

So hopefully people who you follow are kind and smart and will only RT interesting messages. A lot of choices are given to them to RT only messages that they think will be interesting for their followers.