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Magpie: Make Money on Twitter

Source: Mashable!

Oct 31, 2008

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Over the many months we’ve been covering Twitter, talking about Twitter and using Twitter, one of the most common themes we keep coming back to is whether or not they’re every going to decide to monetize the service, and how. The last time we had a focused discussion on this topic here at Mashable, Evan Williams chimed in and poo-pooed the idea being proffered at the time.

Interestingly enough, the idea has come back around, it would appear, and is being attempted by a European company called Magpie. The idea is simple: they’ll pay you for access to your Twitter account, and advertisers will pay them for Tweets they’ll send out in your name. Depending on your preferences, you can allow them to tweet as much as every other tweet or as little as once in twenty tweets.

I allowed the system to take a look at my Twitter account, and give me an estimate of exactly what it thinks I might make in a given month’s worth of Tweets. I’m a light Twitter user, having probably three or four conversational exchanges a day, and about four or so automated posts (announcing blog

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