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Amazon Turns Twitter into a Marketplace - Are You Concerned? (I'm not)

If you're an Amazon Affiliate that is. You can now "tweet" Amazon books and get an affiliate link posted to Twitter nice and easily.

I guess you could already do this by shortening the affiliate URL yourself -- but Amazon's now made it that little bit easier.

RRW isn't happy, uses words like "spam" here: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazon_turns_twitter_into_a_marketplace.php -- seems a bit much when most people just get a bit of pocket money out of Affiliates.

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Nov 05, 2009
Greg said...
Automated tweeting is pretty bad. But making it easy to share with your followers something you like sounds alright to me.
Nov 05, 2009
David Barnes said...
Yep. It's up to the tweeter to use it ethically. Although if an automated account still gets willing followers, what's the harm?

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