A month ago, I wrote about a company called TwittAd that lets you auction off ads on your Twitter page. Now, the company is sponsoring WhatsYourTweetWorth?, a vanity site where you enter your Twitter name, and it tells you how much your Tweets are worth based on how many followers you have. (Try it later, the site is down—probably being overwhelmed by people who are already Twittering about it). Before it went down, it said that TechCrunch, which has 26,361 followers, is worth $503 per month. Except that, it isn’t.
As I noted in my post on TwittAd:
The problem with placing ads on your Twitter page, though, is that ultimately you may just be advertising to yourself. I rarely go to the Twitter pages of people I follow. Their Tweets appear on my Twitter page (and my FriendFeed page, and my Thwirl client, and my Twinkle app on my iPhone). That’s why I follow people, so I can get their Tweets pushed to me. The only way ads are going to work on Twitter is if they are blended into the message stream and sent out as Tweets. But that would be annoying.
I’m sure that’s not going to stop everyone from a Twitter account checking ou thow much they are worth. Here’s a money-making idea TwittAd: Forget about trying to sell ads on Twitter pages, and put ads on WhatsYourTweetWorth instead. (Assuming they can get it to work again).
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I’ve been accused of selling my Tweets by people. I just find links that I like and share them but get blamed all of the time for selling space. Never have though and I never will.
http://twitter.com/adamjackson
It shows that am having just 200 updates, while i have over 1600 updates.
And am worth $19.84 a month!
Am not getting what’s the point and use of the site?
Check my twitter account - http://twitter.com/sizzler_chetan
So there are glitches already, showing i have just 200 updates while i have 1600+ as in twitter profile.
What people won’t come up with ! LOL… I seen people selling their twitter accounts on craiglist and ebay… I think its sad how hungry people are for money. No wonder we have this financial crisis lol….
Eric do you follow me yet?
http://twitter.com/livecrunch
Amen. If only peeps would take the focus off the money and focus on adding VALUE, contributing to the conversations, and genuinely caring about people… the money would flow like the Hudson River anyway.
Cheers,
Mari
@marismith
That is such a smart comment.
“No wonder we have this financial crisis”
Bright. Very Bright.
But first you prove that you are a man http://gener.twitmarks.com
But first you prove that you are a man http://gender.twitmarks.com
few comments. The Updates are not given in real time via the Twitter API. So we are averaging out your updates, as to try and give people a real value on Twitter for how often they are communicating with the Twitter World.
Second, Erick thanks for the mention of WhatsYourTweetWorth. Curious what you think TechCrunch is worth on Twitter? Seeing that the rate card for advertising on TechCrunch.com is not readily available, I am curious why you think the TechCrunch flow on Twitter is not worth $503 dollars. Perhaps you think it is worth more.
And yes, we will probably sell ads on the site. Probably not 8-10 like I see on this page, but something along the lines of 1-2.
Cheers,
James Eliason
Twittad.com President/CEO
Too bad they’re facing “technical difficulties”.
There is a typo in the last paragraph of your article. ou instead of out.
20 mn after Erick’s post, the service is already down.
I guess they first have to scale their service and then advertise on the WhatsYourTweetWorth? page
I wonder if Twitad takes into account that 6 out of 10 twitter followers aren’t actually following you:
http://viniciusvacanti.com/pos.....arent-real
I read twitter related posts only for the comments.
But, I find rather controversial the statement “Our goal is to not fill Twitter with ugly & obnoxious advertisements”, when you give control to a user to define it’s ad.
LAME
Yawn. Innovation, somebody, plz?
kaithxbai.
Checking out how much you are worth on Twitter is going to be a lot more popular then the core twittad product
http://twitter.com/khawe
“What’s Your Tweet Worth?” — Oops! We are facing technical difficulties, try again later
Kevin,
Yeah we have hit our limit that Twitter allows for hourly API calls. Currently working around it.
Unfortunate that we are not able to serve visitors a little better, perhaps Twitter might open up the limits on API calls.
You should definitely check out our site:
Twittertise allows you to advertise on Twitter and track the success of branded communications with your customers.
Using Twittertise you can schedule your communications on Twitter and using URL tracking technology measure the effectiveness of your traffic driving techniques on the platform.
My tweet is definitely not worth a whole lot
What’s a guy like Robert Scoble worth on this? Anyway, amazing how many Twitter apps are coming to market - the good and the bad.
The only time that I check someones page on twitter is when I have a new follower and I check to see who it is in order to ‘follow back.’ Beyond that, I really don’t look at other peoples pages as you mentioned. And even if I saw an add on someones twitter page, I’m not so sure I’d click it! Just sayin’…
The problem with ads on Twitter are the amount of bots running on it.
1. # of followers are easily inflated by fake accounts. So you can’t sell ads by # of followers.
2. Click-thrus on the ad links are heavily inflated by all the bots running on Twitter. Yes, across the web it’s easy to filter out bots. But, with Twitter it’s almost impossible to keep track of every bot that any kid in a basement makes and send it crawling the network.
If someone has a solution for this. Contact me. I would love to have a good ad solution for twitter.
Now the service is down.
I’ll try not to let that 65 cents change me as a person.
(ok, so I’m new to Twitter)
I’m worth $42.57 but is that worth an ugly ass ad, and becoming a sellout?
http://twitter.com/actionpowernews