Is TwitPic Taking Ads A Little Too Far?
I spend a good amount of time on Twitter, and a lot of links go to websites, videos, and pictures. One of the leading services that lets Twitter users upload pictures is TwitPic. TwitPic was one of the very first companies to let Twitter users enable photo sharing, and due to the amount of traffic and traction TwitPic was getting, their servers couldn’t handle the load. From that point, many other services have come out, and it looks like yFrog is now leading the pack.
Hosting can be expensive — I know. But do you really have to take it this far, TwitPic? Upon looking at TechCrunch Developer Andy Brett’s photo hosted on TwitPic of Michael’s dog, Laguna, I was unpleasantly surprised with a huge overlay ad of Second Life. The whole point of Twitpic is to see pictures posted by people you (kinda) know. Blocking those pictures with a gigantic overlay ad showing avatars of people you don’t know is counterproductive.
Hopefully with all the money TwitPic is getting from these ads, they can fix their hosting problems. Otherwise, people will start to think twice about clicking on those Twitpic links.
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