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.