Sure, but Twitter should be able to fairly reliably detect that someone like Mar...

ceejayoz on March 21, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why the Quick Bar (“dickbar”) is still so offensiv...

Sure, but Twitter should be able to fairly reliably detect that someone like Marco isn't interested in the global trends, and serve him stuff more likely to be of interest.

What Twitter's currently doing is akin to Google text ads on HN for Justin Bieber-themed desktop wallpapers - it's completely untargeted.

nhangen on March 21, 2011 [–]

There's a different between being a poor service and being offensive.