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Comment · 14 years ago
Awesome! Congratulations Denis & Arend!
Comment · 14 years ago
>"Admittedly, I was being a bit of a dick by adding the "wtf" at the end..."
This may explain, at least in part, the nature of the response that the OP received.
Comment · 14 years ago
The NYT example is a bad one because any commercial use of of the API is forbidden per the Terms of Use [1]. It seems like the API would be a pretty bad starting point if you were a business that wanted a relationship with the NYT.
[1] e. YOU SHALL NOT: (i) use the NYT APIs for any commercial purpose or in any product or service that competes with products or services offered by NYT. (from: http://developer.nytimes.com/Api_terms_of_use)
Comment · 14 years ago
>If a company is going to do advertising - they should do it well.
You seem convinced that this ad being targeted to you was some massive failure of Twitter's ad product. I am not sure that is the case.
Premium Twitter advertisers (of which the Sun is surely one) have a variety of targeting options that could explain why you saw this ad.
The Sun may have simply targeted all accounts in the UK. Or, they may have targeted accounts that follow other UK publication accounts (it looks like you follow a few Guardian accounts for example).
It is clear that you didn't want to be targeted by The Sun, but that doesn't mean that The Sun didn't want to target you.
Comment · 14 years ago
Sounds awesome! Please feel free to email anytime, would love to explore the use case further.
Comment · 14 years ago
Awesome! Congratulations John, Brandon & Heff!
Email me at [email protected]