Tell HN: Google deactivated Adsense on richtweets.com

[techvibe]

A few years a go I registered the domain richtweets.com and coded the the app during a weekend. On richtweets.com you create a page and post the link and some characters on Twitter, using the Twitter API.

I did no marketing, but the site got some traction and has now about 50K visits monthly. (https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/richtweets.com)

I used Adsense, to monetize the site, but Google deactivated Adsense on richtweets.com today and this is the reason http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66361

[techvibe]

It is actually like a blogging service like blogger.com or wordpress.com So if you want to post more than 140 chars on Twitter, you can login with your twitter account and publish your text, photos or videos.

Google is not right. The site has a lot of original content. Even Brazilian government authorities use richtweets.com to talk to their people. We have over 20k posts an these posts get a lot of comments, retweets and Facebook shares.

[AznHisoka]

well, Google is correct - your site has little to no original content. So what's your beef with that?

[debacle]

I believe RichTweets is the hosting area for the rich tweets that then get linked via Twitter.

At least that's how I understand it.

[AznHisoka]

again, that's very little original content?

[debacle]

I don't follow. Would you say that tumblr has very little original content? That's basically similar to what this service is, only it also automatically tweets a link to your rich tweet for you.

[AznHisoka]

Tweets are not exactly a ton of content.

[arn]

you still don't seem to understand how the site works. the tweets aren't the content. they just link to the content.

example: http://richtweets.com/2ri9c