Let Me Pay You For Twittering
August 27th, 2008By: Sean Percival
I’m having a friendly competition with Jackie Peters right now. Our Twitter follower numbers have been oddly mirroring each other recently. Since we are both getting very close to the 1000 mark, I want to ensure that I get there first. For both ego and bragging rights I need your help with this.
So in the tradition of such wonderful (and certainly not gaming services) like Pay Per Post, I want to pay you to follow me. More specifically, pay you to tell your followers to follow me.
So here is the deal:
- The first 10 people that twit “You really MUST follow @seanpercival” I will send $10 via paypal.
- In order to qualify you must have over 100 followers yourself
- After you have posted it, drop me an email (me @ seanpercival dot com), include a link to the twit and include your PayPal email address.
Thats it! Easiest $10 you ever made.
Follow Sean on Twitter here.
Update:
Thanks for playing everyone, more than 10 people have entered and have been paid out. I’ll go back through the Summize feed tonight to make sure I didnt miss anyone. For those curious, I have recieved about 40 new followers from this stunt. Thats a cost of about $2.50 per follower. Someone has opened a Get Satisfaction about this thread expressing some concerns. Really this is all for fun, and in some sense an experment as well. I’ll post more about this when I have a chance.
On FriendFeed, this post was liked by 0 people and commented on 3 times 
August 27th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Since some might be doing this and slow to email, i’ll do the first 10 people based on time posted. So far about 4 have done it, get in while you can!
August 27th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Sean, you are so silly
Isn’t it only a competition if both of us are participating?
August 27th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Not my fault you have no game! Bring it!
August 27th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Just sent out $70, im waiting for summize to catch up (thought it was realtime?) so i can verify I don’t miss any of the first 10. Chances are if you Twit it now you won’t be part of the 10 however don’t let that stop you.
Also please feel free to blog how creative or stupid this is.
Thanks to everyone who played! So far up about 15 followers.
August 27th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
you are HILARIOUS.
August 27th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Forget it, Percival. I won’t Twhore for you.
August 27th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
This is incredibly lame, feels really dirty, and I think Twitter should really look into this as some kind of TOS violation. Reported.
August 27th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Anon,
Oh now im really worried!
Leave your real name if you would like me to care.
Thanks,
Sean
August 27th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Hahaha, Sean… I’d totally do this, but 1. Jackie’s really too much of a bad ass dame for me to turncoat… 2. I think my entire friends list already follows you.
August 27th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Nice snarky response.
It just doesn’t feel right to me. It just feels dirty and sleazy, even if it is for only ten followers.
Maybe I’m just blowing it out of proportion, so I posted it to GetSatisfaction to see what others think.
http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/topics/paying_for_followers
August 27th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Thank you, lets see what the community has to say on the matter.
August 28th, 2008 at 5:41 am
Great idea.
August 30th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
I’l do if for an extra hour at the office