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If Magpie had thought it through and actually properly analyzed both Twitter and its users, it would have realized that their CPM model is NOT the way forward for monetizing Twitter. As pretty much anyone against it has said, the reason Magpie does not work is because it's not conversational.

It's also forcing people who never signed up for the service to have the adverts in their Twitter stream. Where is the social aspect of that? Isn't it called social media for a reason?

Wouldn't it have been better to have the ads solely in the streams of those who signed up for it? Advertisers will still have an audience, and in fact, will have a more captive audience because they're placing their ads in a stream of someone already signed up.

What's worrying is that the CEO of Magpie has recently announced the #magpie disclaimer no longer needs to be used – an ad can go out as if it's a normal Tweet. This is not good news – it's false advertising and it's also potentially going to break the trust factor between follows and followers.

Interesting that the service is named after a bird that basically steals and scavenges – apt.

if magpie respects the privacy of users and doesn't engage to many people for their campaigns, i'm pretty confident they will manage to have success.

I think the massive number of comments on my post are pretty indicative of the general dislike for Magpie. A twitterpal posted a positive blog review of magpie as she joined it, and few people commented positively.

I suspect that they will die rapidly as advertisers realize that using their service will simply create a negative impression of their product.
I understand the intent, but the implementation is incorrect for the medium.

It's too bad that they are luring people with promises of $$$ in bad economic times… because all they are doing is ruining those peoples' twitter experience for a few euros.