Is Messr Porter considered 'incent'?

Meh.

Consider this one permanent, tho. I'm creating a “Kukral Spam Filter” in
Yahoo Pipes that will take out your sponsored tweets that I'll post up here
for all of your affected friends.

I think another decent analogy can be made to conversations. If we're at an event and we're just talking, I don't want to hear about random business offers. To apply this concept to Jim, let's say I'm talking to Jim at Summit. I want to hear about what he's doing in his life – him personally, and how his business is doing. What I don't expect is that Jim will pause the conversation mid-stream and give me a blatant, unrelated advertisement.

That's how I see Twitter. I know a certain amount of marketing comes into play – I have no qualms about using affiliate links when talking about a product on Twitter. I don't mind the occasional “hey check this product out” tweet. Sponsored Tweets, to my mind, cross a line – for me. This is how I use Twitter.

But, in the end, I have no problem with these Sponsored Tweets because I don't think that Twitter should be limited to how *I* use it. Jim's got a point about just unfollowing people.

But Sam's got a point, too. We shouldn't have to completely unfollow someone. The fact that Twitter is all-or-nothing when it comes to incoming messages is a flaw in the system. It shouldn't be like that.

But no, I don't feel like I have to explain why (I think) SponsoredTweets is spam. That horse has been beaten way too many times by me and others. Ted and Jim are both great guys, but I have fundamental differences with them over how to use this stuff we're still developing.