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What’s a Twitter Account Worth?
Twitter sucks. But if there’s a buck to be made, I’m all for making it.
Hypothetical question that I’m asking my readers: what is a Twitter account with just over 2,000 followers worth? An important detail: this account belongs to a “fake” celebrity and has received press attention.
I’m interested in knowing what you think somebody might be willing to pay for this twasset.
Note: this twat account may or may not be owned by me.
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You forgot to specify the quality of the .
Are said followers fanatical worshippers with a large disposable income or a bored teenager who reads roughly 3000 twitter accounts a day?
Regardless I would give you 5 billion dollars.
Zimbabwe dollars that is.
Edit: You forgot to specify the quality of the asset.
Graham: this is Twitter for fuck’s sake. How many people on Twitter have a large disposable income? How many have the IQ and EQ of a bored teenager? Question answered.
I think maybe you didn’t get my prev comment.
I think Extortion 2.0 would make a great post:
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/gyrobase/yelp_and_the_business_of_extortion_2_0/Content?oid=927491&page=1
http://twitter.com/jeremys
I wouldn’t even buy the company, let alone a single Twitter account (if I could). Does Twitter even make money? I don’t see how they can…
I do doubt you have a Twitter.
More about extortion 2.0:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus11-2009feb11,0,7767842,full.column
Advisor 2.0: I’m all for extortion. I raised a bunch of money for a company called Blackmailr in 2007.
Firstly: we all know that it’s not a “hypothetical question”. There are three reasons you might ask such a question: 1) you own such an account, having started it as a personal experiment / joke, 2) someone has offered to sell you such an account, 3) neither 1 nor 2 (a genuine hypothetical question). There’s no way you’d be considering buying one, and if there was no real life opportunity involved you wouldn’t give a shit, so 2 and 3 are out; and previous posts on fake Twitter accounts only reinforce the likelihood of 1.
Secondly: if there was any possibility the account would have real transferable value, you’d have sold it to a private contact. Announcing you own such an account publicly on the Internet invites the risk that someone will put two and two together and guess which it is, rendering it useless. Therefore, since you did mention it here, the account is worthless.
hey – why don’t you use whatever arrington and the “social media brand expert” justine did to get 25,000 more followers overnight? then you could totally be rollin in da cash monies
Sam: I never thought I’d write this in a comment on my blog, but here goes. You’re thinking too much.
It must be time for me to retire.
Trains of thought are only long when written out. What I wrote was what immediately came into my head. Anyway, there are too many unknowns (such as those mentioned by Graham) to even bother making a guess based on economics, so that only leaves thinking outside the box.