called Twittad.

What is Twittad? Its brief tag line says “Let your ad meet tweets”. The tagline may be brief but it doesn’t mean anything to me.

What Twittad does at the moment is allow you, a twitter user, to sign up and sell the background of your homepage.

In my case that would be the page located at http://twitter.com/ChadVanNorman. When you sign up, you set a period (a Tenure) and the price you wish to sell your background for. I have mine set to $9.95 per week.

So the background of this user’s twitter page is suddenly converted into real advertising space. Now remember that the backgrounds on Twitter homepages are images – There is no click through to another web page. Advertisers must moneygram agents remember that they are buying a fixed static space for a fixed time, click through isn’t relevant.

One major problem that I can see for advertisers is in estimating the value of placing an ad on any one twitter profile. One might rush to the view that the more followers a Tweeter has, then the more likely that the user’s profile will be viewed.

In fact, users of twitter rarely have any reason to visit a fellow twitter user’s profile. For me, usually the only time I will check out another profile, and so see the background image is when that user starts to follow me. I will receive an email from Twitter informing me, with a link to the profile.

So Advertisers should in fact look for “growth in number of followers” as a more likely indicator of the potential success of a Twittad. The Value an advertiser places on this may only be judged over time and I think it would be in Twittad’s favor were they to start publishing more developed metrics then are currently available on their homepage.

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A Magpie and convert your tweets into bling-bling.

How does it work?

Magpie is an ad network for Twitter. Their customers sign up and create campaigns which consist of magpie-tweets (i.e. ads). Twitterers allow them to post magpie tweets among their tweets and for them to get paid for it.

So, their paying me for watching advertisements?

Not at all! You allow them to twitter in your name. Thus, it’s primarily your followers who’ll see the magpie-tweets. They’re targeting them, not you.

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So will I get random magpie-tweets?

No! Magpie-tweets are carefully selected by their service. You’ll only get magpie-tweets that match the topics you’re twittering about.

How often are they twittering magpie-tweets?

You decide! Once every five tweets is their default. But you can choose to have one magpie-tweet per 20 tweets or 1 tweet – 1 magpie-tweet. It depends entirely on you. Listen to what your followers tell you. You can always adjust the ratio later.

Earn more? Earn less? How much do I earn anyway?

You’re earning per magpie-tweet. Every magpie-tweet which appears in your timeline will be rewarded. The amount western union sri lanka rathnapura per tweet depends on the hotness of your tweet’s topics and the number of followers you have. So keep your followers happy and don’t risk annoying them with too many magpie-tweets.

Hotness of your tweets?

Yup. They know you’re hot – no doubt! Their customers bid on certain keywords. If their keywords moneygram agents match your topic area, they qualify. The customer with the highest bid gets his magpie-tweet posted. So, the more customers are competing for your timeline, the more you’ll earn. Of course, bidding and stuff happens automatically.

So after every magpie-tweet they’re sending out a check?

Almost! In fact, you’ll have to pile up €50 before you can cash out. Once you’ve reached that amount, you can transfer the money to your PayPal account. Transfer fees and charges are on them, of course!

Sounds good. I live in YOUR-COUNTRY-NAME-HERE, can I participate?

Positive. As long as you have a PayPal account, you’re good to go. If your currency is not euros (€), the amount will be converted by PayPal upon checkout. Did you know, you can use Google for currency conversion? How cool is that?!

Are they affiliated with Twitter?

No. They are Magpie & Friends Ltd., based in Great Britain and they have their main offices in Germany.

They are in no way affiliated or associated with Twitter, Inc. in San Francisco. If you have the impression that we’re using names, trademarks or logos in an inappropriate way or in a way that makes you think they are Twitter, please contact them immediately and we’ll take action.

Check them out and Be A Magpie!

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