Tell HN: Google deactivated Adsense on richtweets.com

8 points by techvibe 14 years ago | 11 comments

A few years a go I registered the domain richtweets.com and coded the the app during a weekend. On richtweets.com you create a page and post the link and some characters on Twitter, using the Twitter API.

I did no marketing, but the site got some traction and has now about 50K visits monthly. (https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/richtweets.com)

I used Adsense, to monetize the site, but Google deactivated Adsense on richtweets.com today and this is the reason http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66361

techvibe 14 years ago |

It is actually like a blogging service like blogger.com or wordpress.com So if you want to post more than 140 chars on Twitter, you can login with your twitter account and publish your text, photos or videos.

Google is not right. The site has a lot of original content. Even Brazilian government authorities use richtweets.com to talk to their people. We have over 20k posts an these posts get a lot of comments, retweets and Facebook shares.

AznHisoka 14 years ago |

well, Google is correct - your site has little to no original content. So what's your beef with that?

debacle 14 years ago | |

I believe RichTweets is the hosting area for the rich tweets that then get linked via Twitter.

At least that's how I understand it.

AznHisoka 14 years ago | | |

again, that's very little original content?