Companies like ad.ly are beginning to pick up steam and the controversy surrounding Twitter advertising is picking up steam as well.

Shivsingh over at Social Media Today wrote an interesting piece looking at the opportunities and risks with Twitter advertising.

One of the biggest warnings I hear from those opposed to Twitter ads is that users simply will not accept them. Allowing ads on your Twitter feed could cause a revolt and unfollowing on a mass scale.

I happen to believe the whole issue is a little overhyped. The fact is, if it’s possible to monetize something — people will monetize it. As long as the tweets are clearly marked as ads and not intrusive, I don’t really see a problem with it.

Services like ad.ly only send out one ad tweet per day on your feed and it’s an ad of your choice.

Will some of your followers get pissed off and leave? Probably one or two, but I think the vast majority will learn to live with it as they have for everything else on the web.

(image via Million Clues)

I haven’t been happy with my earnings from the typical ad service companies like AdBrite recently so I decided to try out a new PPC ad service. I’m about five days in and I’m quite pleased with what I’m seeing.

The company is called NetKlix and it allows you to either buy or sell text ads. It’s extremely easy to set-up and caters to both mainstream and adult websites.

Check them out and see what you think!

(hat tip ProBlogger)