Buy Yourself an Account With 1.500 Followers on Twitter

By Staale on April 13th, 2008

Found a interesting post over at Shoe today regarding an eBay action. Apparently some guy are selling his Twitter account with almost 1.500 followers. And guess what, the bid is now over $500. That makes each followers worth aprox 33 cents. (Hey, my account is worth almost $2.50 then! :P)

The auction have over 4000 views now, and after the plug on Show (and here. heh.) it will probably gain a couple more thousands views.

So, is it worth it? Probably not, one of the ways he has got so many followers is by following many users himself. 1,395 of them to be correct. So, you could probably build such an account for a fairly cheaper price yourself. One method I can think of right now is buy hiring a guy on DP and tell him to log into your account and start following as many users as he can. This will for sure give you some followers.

Anyway, thumbs up for Andrew for being the first one selling is Twitter account. I have a feeling we will see some more accounts at eBay soon.

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Categories: General
Tags: twitter

12 Responses to “Buy Yourself an Account With 1.500 Followers on Twitter”

Chetan on Apr 13th, 2008 at 10:24 am

Selling a twitter account!!!

Man, now see sitepoint being filled by these kinda sales very soon.
Twitter is like an IM site, why would someone look to sell that!
Chetan on Apr 13th, 2008 at 10:25 am

Oh and btw Staale, just followed.

This is me - http://twitter.com/sizzler_chetan
Staale on Apr 13th, 2008 at 1:29 pm

Hehe. The auction has got almost 2k more views and guess what, the bid is now over US $1,025.00!
MillionEuroMan on Apr 13th, 2008 at 3:29 pm

This is surely a linkbait!
Chetan on Apr 14th, 2008 at 4:19 am

$1125 and still counting..

@ MillionEuroMan, if it was some blog post, then would have considered as a bait, but for a twitter account???
david cheong on Apr 15th, 2008 at 11:00 am

And its still rising.. wow, and thats alot of money doh…
Staale on Apr 15th, 2008 at 11:58 am

16000 views on the auction and a bid of US $1,550.00. I might suspect the bid to be fake thought. Made from an account with no feedback.
Montenegro on Apr 15th, 2008 at 3:14 pm

Whats the point? Can you earn any by owning an account with many followers?
Mark Cuda on Apr 17th, 2008 at 3:36 pm

Huh, that’s pretty darn interesting. I wonder what people really see as far as value in that auction. :shrugs:

Regards,

- Mark | http://www.monkeyblogger.com
Ruby on Apr 21st, 2008 at 3:23 am

I’ve read about this on a few blog, id this even legal?
david cheong on Apr 22nd, 2008 at 11:55 pm

Any royal follower for http://twitter.com/davcheong ? $2,000 and still counting. Just kidding.
Fitness Site on Apr 23rd, 2008 at 2:49 am

lol. Now twitter is going to sell after the Entrecard selling. Great