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Re: My new business: 1,000 Twitter followers for $99

Chris - LG Blog — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:54:36 -0000

I'm not so convinced that anyone who knew what they were doing would buy into that. It's pretty widely understood that quality of follower (right demographic etc) is of much more importance than quantity. But then i guess the key phrase is "anyone who knew what they were doing", and there are many thousands who don't.
Go for it.

Re: My new business: 1,000 Twitter followers for $99

Ewan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:21:06 -0000

Yeah for an extra fee we can run your entire online life...

Re: My new business: 1,000 Twitter followers for $99

Mac Morrison — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:08:59 -0000

can you automate my feed too

Re: My new business: 1,000 Twitter followers for $99

Ewan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:58:52 -0000

Sorry were you looking for the sign-up link?

Re: My new business: 1,000 Twitter followers for $99

me — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:52:48 -0000

dick.

Re: My new business: 1,000 Twitter followers for $99

TimDS — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:48:31 -0000

I'm not going to tell you how far I'd got before I realised you weren't completely serious, and were in fact only a little bit serious. Too good.

Re: My new business: 1,000 Twitter followers for $99

Ewan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:34:44 -0000

Thanks Jim -- super to hear from you!

Re: My new business: 1,000 Twitter followers for $99

Jim Geddes — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:23:25 -0000

Love the way you think Ewan. Keep up those great ideas coming even if they're toungue in cheek

Re: My new business: 1,000 Twitter followers for $99

Where's Mike? — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:22:55 -0000

Excellent idea (in a selling-your-soul kinda way). Reminds me of www.usersubmitter.com, which claimed to do the same for Digg.

Re: My new business: 1,000 Twitter followers for $99

njar — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:19:55 -0000

You don't even need to make fake profiles.. Just outsource the profiles to be real people... Call centres are already there, just get them all to join twitter.. Oh I love this concept. I'd do it just for the pure amusement... no financial gain needed. I'm speccing it for rentacoder now.

Anarchy2.0

Re: My new business: 1,000 Twitter followers for $99

Ewan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:19:23 -0000

James, I actually gave quite a bit of thought to this. I agree with you, it would be a piece of piss to knock-up. And what's more, it would be 100% valuable and accurate. No one would notice. You could easily prevent Twitter from recognising what's going on.

I gave a lot of thought to it. It would have been highly, highly ironic to have made a pile of cash from this. I estimated at least 1,000 orders in the first 30 days. It's just not me.

It's the same reason I walked away from the ringtone market back when it was a booming business and no one had really noticed. It was just shite. I don't like doing shite business.

Heh.... Good luck to he (or she) who makes the service.

Re: My new business: 1,000 Twitter followers for $99

James Pearce — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:14:04 -0000

Incidentally, the technology for this would scale quite well, since you wouldn't have to have a distinct 1,000 for each of your customers. Some of your daemons could follow multiple clients (and some non-paying people too... just to blur the social graph out a bit).

Seriously, you could run this off a few hours of coding and a few dollars month. I know you're joking, but I bet someone's thinking about it... ;-)

Re: My new business: 1,000 Twitter followers for $99

pablo — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:12:45 -0000

You doggie dog you.

Re: My new business: 1,000 Twitter followers for $99

James Pearce — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:05:33 -0000

Fabulous idea! Beats £12k to read a blog ;-)

Re: My new business: 1,000 Twitter followers for $99

Ewan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:05:32 -0000

I completely forgot the other sites. I'm going to do an update...

Re: My new business: 1,000 Twitter followers for $99

njar — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:03:10 -0000

Sounds like something Time Life sells.. It can be all mine for 5 easy installments of £19.99.. Plus £19.99 p&p. But wait, what's that you say, if I buy now, I also get 50 bonus Facebook friends, 200 LinkedIn 'e-recruitment specialists' and an invite to 78 other shitty business or social networking tools? BRILLIANT. I'll get my coat.

(Possibly your greatest EVER post)

Re: My new business: 1,000 Twitter followers for $99

Martin Bryant — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:50:29 -0000

You'd make a ton of money... but a little bit of your soul would die :)