Want to earn some money from your Twitter account? Take a look at a startup called ‘Be a Magpie‘, which pays twitterers for posting ad tweets (they call it magpie-tweets) in between their normal tweets. The magpie-tweets are published by them and all you have to do is give them your password. So, unlike TwittAd, which uses Twitter backgrounds for advertisement, ‘Be a Magpie’ directly advertises through tweets. I’m sure that you will check it!
How actually ‘Be a Magpie’ works? It allows advertisers to create ad campaigns with a message and some keywords. Then, the system publishes those ads in between regular tweets and you get paid for it! They publishes tweets, on behalf of you, that matches with the topics you are twittering about. How often they publishes the ad tweets or magpie-tweets? Well, it depends on your own choice. You can choose to have one magpie-tweet per 20 tweets or one magpie-tweet per tweet. The default is one magpie-tweet every five tweets. This is very important, as too many ad tweets may annoy your followers.
How much you can earn? Your earnings will depend on the total number of followers you have on Twitter. The more popular you are, the more advertisers will compete for a tweet in your timeline and ultimately you will earn more. The value of a magpie-tweet is assessed through automated bidding of the advertisers that compete for advertisements.They will pay you via PayPal, once your accumulated earnings reaches € 50.
So, how to start? Anyone over 18 years of age and a Twitter account can register as a publishers on the Magpie network. Simply enter your Twitter name in their sign-up page and you will get an idea about how much you could earn. If you are interested to go forward, just give them your Twitter password and start earning! Well, in order to get paid, you must have a PayPal account and I’m sure that you have one.
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Hi.
First, thanks for returning all my EC drops. I visit your blog often but I never commented (it´s just I don´t know what to say).
Only recently I considered using Twitter, because I though it would be time consuming, but this opportunity is interesting. I will check it.
All the best. Mizé.
This is the second such program I have seen. I have yet to try and take advantage of one though. I don’t want to risk losing followers…
hi,
thanks for the info.
Already joined TwittAd, but still not receive any money yet.
hopefully this one will work hehe
Hello! I want to make some money online and I must say that this blog is pretty interesting.
The idea of earning some money from my Twitter account sounds good!
I’m going to take a look at Beamagpie!
Thanks for sharing
Have a very good day!
Salvatore
@Mizé ,
Thanks for leaving a comment here. Comments of my blog readers always inspires and enlightens me. I do read all comments and always try to write a reply. So, feel free to leave a line anytime. I hope that this new program will help you.
@ethan ,
Your worries are genuine. As Twitter is a micro-blogging platform, you can’t hide an ad from your readers!
@lankapo ,
I hope that you will get some money from this one. All the best.
@Salvatore ,
Thanks for your comment. I hope that you will also get success with Be a Magipe.
Interesting. I never knew programs like that existed. I may have to try it once I do more exploring. Thanks for the information.
cash4tweets.com is similar
Ive used this service and frankly its a real bad investment. Their targeting is extremely hopeless. They also don’t check on duplicate tweets, so Ive had the same person tweet my ad on 2 consecutive days and I had to pay twice to reach the same set of people. FYI, I can create fake profiles and follow a targeted set of users on twitter have about 50% of them follow me back and post my advert to them at $0 using my bot.
The reporting is an analytics eyewash and their customer support takes 3 days to reply.
If you ask me stay away and stop promoting this crappy site. You can make more money pushing affiliate offers to your followers.
Satyajeet,
Thanks for telling us about your experience with Be a Magpie. I hope that it will help other users in understanding the service better!
Attention readers: If you have similar experience with any such services, feel to express it on your blog, forums or on this blog. It will help in gathering a common opinion about a particular service.
Be-A-Magpie actually inspired me. I signed up 2 weeks ago, learned within 30-seconds that they auto-tweeted using my account and I wasn’t cool with that. So, I went immediately into dev. Today, 4/29/09, we launched betweeted.com — I call it “socially responsible” advertising on Twitter.
Lovely blog! Thanks for the useful information.
heh guys,
check this out http://www.twitguru.com/
magpie killer !!
hi.. i just dont understand the process of be-a-magpie tweets.
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be magpie perview sponsored is great. if you have 10.000 follower, magpie give you $10 per sponsored.
I just get one advertiser to approve.. Don’t know whether it is worthy or not
magpie, suspend my account twice