[liotier]

I may be oversensitive to spam (I must admit that my love of ad-blocking software in all sorts of systems borders on mania) but the very idea that I now have to be wary of Sponsored Tweets that require an effort to unsee has already started to spoil the experience.

[ericras]

There's no such thing as a free lunch, etc, etc. I like the Sponsored Tweets compared to the alternatives: either paying to use Twitter or banner ads.

[liotier]

Or hosting your own... Take a look at http://twister.net.co - it has potential for scalable decentralized peer-to-peer microblogging.