Is twit­ter being taken over by adver­tis­ing and self promotion?

Here are a few sam­ples from twitter:

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VISON V221WD Black 21.6 5ms Widescreen LCD Mon­i­tor | Us Bar­gain Net­work — Com­puter & Elec­tron­ics Bar­gain Hunter

Deal-[$119.99] VISON V221WD Black 21.6″ 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor

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Com­mis­sion Blue­print – Learn The Truth… | My Affil­i­ate Mar­ket­ing Guide

less than 5 sec­onds ago from twit­ter­feed

iwashington3Afford­able auto insur­ance for your chil­dren. Plenty of options to review. Quotes are free and quick!

Car Insur­ance Quotes — ChildInsure.com

half a minute ago from web

There is a way to bypass all this self pro­mo­tion and adver­tise­ments. If you use a desk­top client like Tweet­Deack or my favorite Seesmic You can setup a group and just put the peo­ple you want to read frequently.

Tweet­Deck Groups

How do groups work in TweetDeck?

Seesmic UserList

Video Tuto­r­ial — (2÷3) Cre­at­ing Accounts, Cre­at­ing Groups/Userlists, Nav­i­gat­ing Replies

Do you have sug­ges­tions to ignore adver­tise­ments and self pro­mo­tions, share with us.

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