I didn’t even know there were paid tweets available, but after I figured out it existed I decided to experiment with it. $25,- not much you’ll say. But $25,- for a Tweet, yes correct a TWEET, and someone with only 235 followers?! It’s weird to think that some companies are paying someone ANYTHING to tweet at all.
The reason why I am writing this post is because after my sponsored tweet got published, some of my followers started complaining about it. Personally, I think there is nothing wrong with tweeting for products I think my followers might find useful. I don’t care about people’s haircut schedules, but I do care about useful and interesting things.
My sponsored tweet didn’t refer to any specific product, exept for the sponsoredtweets.com API, which is actually developer related information. Now if I would start tweeting about the latest age-defying serum for women over 50, yeah, you’re probably right, and I shouldn’t be tweeting such things at all.
Would you tweet a sponsored tweet if it contained relevant information, based on your followers list? According to some people it’s painful enough to get regular updates on your colleague feeding his cat. What if he started “spamming” your Twitter feed with product pitches? I’m not saying you should start stuffing your Twitter feed with advertisements, because you’ll lose followers one way or another. But can/would a fair amount of sponsored tweets do you any harm?
I’m interested in hearing your thoughts.
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Andries, I think that you didn’t have to write “Sponsored:” at the beginning of the tweet. even if the link you provided was useful, it will be always looked at as an ad. and for some reason people hate ads and would even pay to stop receiving them.
If you had found it relevant you’d have tweeted it without getting sponsored. The problem is that your judgement of what is relevant is clouded because of the money offered. That info did not get any more relevant to me at all by the money you received.
A different way to look at it. You essentially got paid for the time i spent reading it. It’s no different than a tv show showing ads between programmes. In return for quality content i agree to watch ads. Big difference: with tv i can zap away. With tweets i can only unsubscribe from your channel completely