Comments on: The Truth About Twitter: Everybody Lies

By: How to Handle Google Goose Eggs

How to Handle Google Goose Eggs — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:58:58 +0000

[...] do paid text links, or any of the other seedy practices that Google doesn’t like. (I kind of joke about paid links here. Lame joke, but still.) I give “dofollow” links — but only to regular, [...]

By: battract

battract — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:32:34 +0000

Galen: I’m quite certain you can find better things to do with your blog than chasing after a lousy $7.50!

I signed up for an account at both PPP and ReviewMe to see what all the fuss is about — but at this point I feel that neither scheme is a good fit for my blogs. It might be a good fit for some, but not for me.

As for Andy’s comment “I use it more to challenge and educate than to make money.” — I laughed out loud. Does anybody really believe that one?

If that statement is true, why not post WITHOUT the payment? Why go through the extra hoop? (Hint: I think some people really need that $7.50 — but don’t want to admit it!)

PS — I checked into my PPP account to see the effects. Bottom line: I sure ain’t getting $7.50 for this post!

By: Galen

Galen — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:53:25 +0000

Laura, we won’t get paid $7.50 to review your post?

By: battract

battract — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:51:35 +0000

Thanks, Pat!

And congrats on quitting your day job to become a full time entrepreneur… best wishes!

By: Pat B. Doyle

Pat B. Doyle — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:11:06 +0000

Laura, I just discovered your blog from your comment on mine. This post is fantastic. I love your use of humor and truth to let us know that we don’t need to be so literal! By the way, I have not yet figured out what Twitter is good for. I’ll have to read more of your posts to find out.

By: battract

battract — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:26:23 +0000

Andy,

By your reasoning, all works of art are lies — because they aren’t literal.

In my world, to be precise and literal is to hide from the truth.

Appreciating abstraction is much more engaging and humane.

Hmmmm…engaging and humane…doesn’t that sound… ethical???

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:52:15 +0000

At the time that post was written, Jason Calacanis was posting links to almost every blog post he wrote, but also calling for anyone using PayPerPost to include a very explicit disclosure in the first line they wrote.
He didn’t actually have any disclosure on his blog either.

you are right that everybody lies on Twitter, and almost every person I know uses it for promotion of their commercial content content, or that of their clients.

Just because a whole bunch of tech geeks do it doesn’t mean it is ethical or legally correct.

I should point out that PPP do require disclosure, and I use it more to challenge and educate than to make money.