News Source: http://outspokenmedia.com
Published: Jul 13, 2009 - 10:51 am
Story Found By: Sugarrae 1055 Days ago
Category: Affiliates
7 Comments
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News Source: http://outspokenmedia.com
Published: Jul 13, 2009 - 10:51 am
Story Found By: Sugarrae 1055 Days ago
Category: Affiliates
7 Comments
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Affiliate marketing helped build Amazon - would be good spot for Branes and Noble or Borders to jump in... maybe a new off shore company could win here.
In case you haven’t noticed, twitter is rife with spam. Letting affiliates spam twitter is a sure fire way to piss everyone off. +1 Amazon.
Ryan, like Lisa says, affiliate links live on trust. Your comment either assumes you haven’t read the entire article or you believe that all people follow spammers and that Twitter will become a mess of affiliate links if Amazon lets this slide. (Too bad that people have been throwing out affiliate links on Twitter for a very long time. I guess you hadn’t noticed.)Educated users of the service are not following spammers. And I think it’s wrong to believe that affiliates are [solely?] spamming Twitter. Quite the contrary; I see a lot of legit members throw out affiliate links, and I am not bothered by such a tactic. If I’m interested, I’ll click. If I’m really interested, I’ll buy. And the affiliate -- the person who told me to look into that product -- deserves to get credit for that.
Hi Tamar, I certainly did RTFA and of course I’ve noticed affiliate links - im a very successful aff marketer and not retarded last I checked. Twitter already IS a mess of affiliate links. Do you use twitter? /snark I know you do, I think I follow you :). Its not hard to write a bot that entices a significant number of legit users to follow back. I think if you look at just how many tweets are coming from the api you will see how scripters like myself ARE in fact ruining the user experience for new users who don’t know better. I wouldn’t be surprised if >50% of all tweets were scripted. As an aside - IANAL but isn’t there a possibility Amazon could be held liable for the actions of its affiliates on a third party site’s infrastructure? Hope you have a great friday - Ryan
This is a good move by Amazon. The sooner all others follow suit the better. Twitter is already too full of affiliate spam, so any move like this is a step in the right direction.
There are good and legitimate points on both side of this argument. But I think the other side of this that the article points out is that to just simply ignore social media as a medium to promote their services would be folly. Amazon needs to figure out a way to incorporate this medium, even if that means denial of affiliate links on twitter and such.
It does make sense that Amazon would run the risk of creating a wave of Twitter spam links, but at the same time not allowing affiliates to utilize these channels is a truly massive oversight. This is definitely something Twitter should look into when they determine how to monetize the service.