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    1. Honest to god, wtf is happening here? AT&T is promoting a Vox video that is basically an ad for an iPhone accessory?
      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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    WAIT A SEC there is AT&T preroll in front of this... Is Twitter arbitrarily promoting videos into the timeline to pump up preroll inventory?
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      So is Circuit Breaker promoting AT&T and this is brand content without proper FTC-mandated notice? Or...
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        Is Twitter attaching brand promotion tags to Tweets that the brand didn't promote directly, in order to attach that brand's preroll?
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          Hey ATTcares did you purposefully promote a Vox media brand video to put your preroll on it? Or voxmediainc is this your deal with AT&T?
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            ATTcares voxmediainc TwitterSupport What exactly is the policy here?
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            Twitter's roll out of preroll is like a masterclass in how to make the most confusing possible user experience decisions.
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              Also, if you click out of a tab where Twitter video was playing, then you click back into it after video was finished it replays the video.
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                So prepare for some very suspicious video play numbers from Twitter!
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                  I like that someone at Twitter said 'let's make the confusing, obtuse system of programmatic preroll advertising even less transparent!'
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                    So who knows if it is up to date, but as far as I can tell from dev docs, it isn't possible to target preroll to a particular account
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                      So AT&T's buy of preroll has them sponsoring an unknown set of tweets? Did they know? How does Twitter assure alignment & brand safety?
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                        If so, bigger question: isn't it ethically questionable for a purchase of preroll to *directly create* more inventory where none existed?
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                          Or is Twitter's position that preroll inventory is equal to their DAUs?
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                            Preroll for an insurance company (I think) autoplayed on this video. It's Bloomberg really ok with being literally promoted by someone else?
                            oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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                              Cheerios pre roll on Cheerios branded content, not made by, but promoted by Cheerios. Coincidence or on purpose?
                              oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
                              1. …in reply to @Chronotope
                                Huh, NFL themed soup ad before an NFL video.
                                oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API


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