I also don't like that I don't see all the tweets from a person. They are pruning the timeline.
Good riddance to twitter.
This means either their targeting is pretty crap or they only get low-quality ads.
The ads on the social platforms are not worth anything if you're using them as general CPC ads to try to drive traffic to your site. In fact, I've found this is even true for Google/Adwords.
Buying FB page likes seems like a pointless exercise considering that only a tiny percentage of your users actually ever see your posts unless you boost them.
Consider ultra narrowcasting. I don't think the British History Podcast guy (who is awesome to listen to BTW and officially VLM endorsed) is going to demand the full $100 to advertise and would surely result in orders of magnitude more than five clicks, for example.
As a user of your service I'd advise that a big problem with podcasts that are essentially volunteer operations is long dry spells. The bulgarian history podcast, which is much more interesting than it sounds, although the intro music makes my kids cry, had a roughly five month dry spell this spring where I unsubscribed in my podcast catcher because I thought the podcast had completely died. Cool, its not dead. Now I should resubscribe although the point of this story is you need to automate or productize or make more efficient that process, not just dumb luck that I run into the guy who runs the site on HN so I click around some of my old favorites and holy cow the other BHP is back, thru pure luck.
There must be some kind of technological magic that could be spun somehow to help volunteers having a dry spell from having their audience melt away. Reminder service on the web or email to let people know dead podcasts have been resurrected? You might even be able to generalize this magic, whatever it is, to let people know about resurrected open source projects or similar.
"Its not dead, its just pining for the fjords".com or something
It's hysterical, and has a huge following. They do live shows and everything. Just finished up a tour of Australia.
*(bi-weekly means whatever Dave wants it to mean)
They are leaving an enormous amount of money on the table by not inserting their own affiliate links though.
I'm interested in those too, any recommendation on who to follow?
My handle is @madengr
But if you want to have fun, keep blocking promoted tweets. After a month or two, things get... "interesting" in terms of what you see. Well, at least entertaining.
Only one third party app receives Promoted Tweets, and no third party apps are required to display them.