{"id":1383,"date":"2010-07-01T20:32:11","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T00:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2011-01-17T13:51:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T18:51:16","slug":"twitter-ads-for-a-good-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/01\/twitter-ads-for-a-good-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter ads, for a good cause?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: <a href=https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=1459>I donated $250 to Children&#8217;s Hospital of Boston<\/a> as a result of this ad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve received an offer from a reputable company to run a single, sponsored tweet through my Twitter feed, for a fee of over $200. My initial thought was to decline, but it occurred to me I could run the ad and turn the proceeds over to charity &#8211; Children&#8217;s Hospital in Boston would be an obvious choice, since we&#8217;ve been there more than once over the past few years and they have always given my daughter superb care, although I would spread the money around if I did this more than once.<\/p>\n<p>My hesitation comes from the my assumption that everyone who follows me on Twitter signed up with the implicit understanding that there would be no ads. I&#8217;d like to feel like the bulk of my readers\/followers are on board with any decision to take ads and ship the money off to charity, so I&#8217;m putting it up for a vote. If you have specific thoughts to share, feel free to throw them in the comments, but if you simply have a yes\/no opinion, please vote and let me know how you&#8217;d like me to handle this. Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>[poll id=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: I donated $250 to Children&#8217;s Hospital of Boston as a result of this ad. &#8212; So I&#8217;ve received an offer from a reputable company to run a single, sponsored tweet through my Twitter feed, for a fee of over $200. My initial thought was to decline, but it occurred to me I could run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1623,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}