Why Twittad Is A Scam And Its Vanity Counterpart May Be A Better Business

by Jason Wilk on October 3, 2008

  • Twittad, launched a platform September 2nd to let you host and make money off ads they place on your Twitter page.
  • Submit to them your Twitter name and how many followers you have and they will get back to you with how much they can pay you for an ad.
  • We noted earlier that visiting other people’s Twitter homepages is not an integral part of Twitter and that the only way to sell advertisers on this would be to trick them into believing ‘Followers’ relates to daily page views.
  • WhatsYourTweetWorth?, it’s complimentary counterpart, just launched to try and predict how much your Twitter should make you a month via Twittad. Just enter your Twitter name and press enter.
  • Quite an amusing service, but innacurate nonetheless. TwittAd may have to resort to giving fake valuations of your Twitter account because I don’t see anyone intelligent lining up to advertise.

TC

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Tagged as: How Do You Spend Your Time Online, twittad, Twitter

  • jason
    James,

    Thanks for your compliment. We appreciate it when founders come on and defend their stance.
  • Jason,

    Glad I found your site, you have some very good articles.

    We have rolled out a lot more on Twittad.com than just our site www.whatsyourtweetworth.com.

    This includes working with Twellow.com by grabbing their categories and placing Twitter users into those categories on Twittad. What this will do is allow advertisers to directly target specific demographics.

    We are certainly not a scam, we are simply giving users the ability (if they choose) to make money on Twitter.

    Regards,
    James Eliason
    President/CEO Twittad.com
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