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I’d love to say that spon­sored Tweets are the stu­pid­est thing ever. Would love to sing high from the moun­tain (ahem, Paul Carr) about how evil ads in our Twit­ter stream are.

Screw that. It’s hap­pen­ing and there’s not a damn thing any of you can do about it.

It’s not per­fect, it’s not always ideal but it’s what’s hap­pen­ing and we all should deal with it. We suf­fered through this with celebrity endorse­ments. We suf­fered through this with pop-up ads on our favorite sites. We (okay, you) suf­fered through this with Zynga and other’s Face­book games.

So now peo­ple want to make money from endors­ing some­thing? Let them do what­ever they want. I don’t bitch when Robert Scoble reviews some­thing. Carr wants to bitch? Great. Who fuck­ing cares.

They make more money than you and I do. Our rules don’t apply to them, nor should they.

Don’t like it? Don’t fol­low. Done.

(dis­clo­sure: I signed up for such a ser­vice. I sent one tweet. Made $3.37. The sun came up the next day.)

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