Who knew that I would notice the day that Twitter died:

Assetize checks the user's followers and a selection of their tweets to see what kind of information is of interest to that particular group, and chooses an advertising partner accordingly. After signing up, the user allows Assetize to insert a sponsored message once every few tweets. The message contains a link to the chosen advertiser's product, and the user is paid according to how many people click on that link – even if other users re-tweet the sponsored message, the original user gets paid for all subsequent clicks.

Hey, it's a Canadian firm that figured this out, so I must support it, right? Like the Olympics. Or the application and respect for Federal jurisdiction and politics.

I use Twitter only amongst the beer geeks. There is another account out there but it's been six weeks since I looked at it. Facebook is for people you know in meatspace, Twitter is niche. That's the rule, right? And, like including people from work, ads will kill of each medium. Unless they are in sidebars. Gmail has sidebars and Facebook does too. They were because I have eyeballs that can focus and not look at them. Even if "social networks" is a really dumb phrase at least it does have that word social as in social darts or dancing or drinking. Not serious. And certainly not commercial.