Fur Affinity informed they are barred from advertising on Twitter following premiere of blue-paw Furrified status
On November 28th, Dragoneer posted a message that Fur Affinity's account received on Twitter. It was from the social media site's advertisement team. In the message they indicated that the adult website would not be able to advertise on Twitter.
A user associated with your account is ineligible to participate in the Twitter Ads program at this time.
This determination is based on the following Twitter Ads Policy:
@furaffinity: Adult sexual products and services.[...]
We appreciate your interest in Twitter Ads
Unsolicited Denial
Dragoneer noted that no one from Fur Affinity had reached out to solicit for advertising. He noted it was following an update they had made to their site to allow for recurring subscriptions. This consists of two types: FA+ and Furrified status. The former has benefits such as official high definition art support and a "guilt-free" ad free experience. Furrified status, however, is just a tag for your username similar to the new blue checkmark on Twitter. It also shares the base price of $8 a month.
While Fur Affinity's owner joked that this denial letter seemed to come out in response to this parody, the letter is written in such a way where it seems to indicate that perhaps a third party was trying to buy advertisement on the behest of Fur Affinity. Who the "user associated with [FurAffinity]" is was never clarified.
Someday, perhaps, Twitter will find a way to verify when a person in discussion for advertisement services is the actual party in question. But until then, without their ability to advertise on Twitter, we’ll have to find some other way to discover that Fur Affinity exists.
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As I was editing this, a though crossed my mind on why sending messages about denied advertisements to users from unsolicited requests could be dangerous as it can be prone to social engineering phishing attacks.
Just send a letter like that from an official looking account and have the links point elsewhere.
It seems odd that a site would even take offers from third parties to advertise for another user, no less announce the denial from the third party to the uninvolved user.
Maybe Twitter are seeking revenue by proactively reaching out to businesses, but checking for porn first? That said, FA's Twitter profile doesn't have a business/organization type set yet - there's an Art Gallery option. Guess I'll see if I get a similar notice for Inkbunny!
Assuming it is a real notice, it would be odd if they were reaching out to businesses to say they were ineligible. It would be far less effort just to not reach out to those people at all, especially since they are already not advertising. Would that also imply there are people checking on the background of big Twitter profiles? Seems like a huge waste of time for a company with a dwindling staff complement.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
Unless Elon is telling them to contact "Verified" businesses to give them a chance to be "Official" [Which from what I can see is the status they are giving their advertisers].
And knowing Elon's obsessions with receipts, the employee could just be sending the message so that they can account for their time or meeting some sort of quota.
That could make sense. I dunno what new categories Twitter has. All I want is to see the tweets/retweets of accounts I watch.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
I wonder if it was someone trying to advertise their own furaffinity page.
Then they checked the site and found out who to contact based on the main FA page.
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