I haven't found the sponsored tweets annoying at all. I mostly don't even notice them. I scan my feed and I only pay attention to the tweets which interest me. Everything else could be an ad as far as I'm concerned.
The number of sponsored ads don't seem high enough to make me feel like it's annoying.
As for Twitter clients. Eh, not sure I care so much. I just need a decent client which doesn't suck.
I think their recent decision sort of suck but as a user I don't know that I care too much.
This is exactly how the normal consumers look at these things. Outside of my tech life, no one cares at all.
They just joined Twitter, years after it was launched, because they wanted to see what interesting people & celebs were saying. Heck, the probably even heard about Twitter from an advert or some sort of marketing material, so adverts within Twitter won't bother them/me.
Yes, the (few) sponsored ads seem no different than any other tweet you wouldn't care about anyway. I for one am quite accustomed to sifting through things this way, the ads don't seem like much of an extra burden, at least to me.
I feel like we as nerds should think in the long term.
Communication should be controlled by the users. Think about all the companies who were screwed over by Facebook's "Likegate." Decentralization is why I prefer Tent and IRC. App.net seems acceptable as well because of the open nature, though it is centralized.
The number of sponsored ads don't seem high enough to make me feel like it's annoying.
As for Twitter clients. Eh, not sure I care so much. I just need a decent client which doesn't suck.
I think their recent decision sort of suck but as a user I don't know that I care too much.