Comments on: Magpie: How to Lose a Follower in 10 Tweets

By: Dantanner

Dantanner — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:42:16 +0000

I used Magpie’s self promotion tweet ( which does not pays me BTW) to experiment and I got a violent reaction. Immediately several followers bolted out the barn like racehorses. Why Magpie is so hated? I don’t understand it. You see commercials all day long on radio and TV how can Internet be free of them?

By: joe

joe — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:02:28 +0000

test2

By: sean

sean — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:00:36 +0000

test

By: pcnerd37

pcnerd37 — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:00:57 +0000

In the three weeks or so that I have been using it, I have made €4.55. Thats not bad for 7 tweets. Its not much at this point, but I hope it picks up when I either get more followers or they get more advertisers. I just passed 250 followers tonight, so I am curious to see if I make more money based on how many followers I have. Ideally, I would like to make enough from it to pay for some of the necessities of life, such as gas or my car insurance. Im still making more money from it than I am from Adsense, which is all I care about. When it comes to making money, Adsense sucks.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:56:47 +0000

Hey look two followers I didn know were using it! Guys please tell me how it goes, very curious to know how much you earn!

By: Matthew Wayne Selznick

Matthew Wayne Selznick — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:34:59 +0000

I'm intrigued by Magpie, but like so many, I don't want to alienate my friends. So I've left it up to them to tell me if I should use it or not. So far, most folks appear to be tolerant of the idea of advertising in my Twitterstream because they know I need to find as many streams of income as possible while I'm unemployed. We'll see how it goes..!

By: pcnerd37

pcnerd37 — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:20:36 +0000

I have been using Magpie since it came out and have only had 7 Magpie tweets so far. I believe this is due to the lack of advertisers they have using the service which is why I am not making anywhere near what they said I could make. I mainly signed up for it to have another source of income as I could use the money.

So far, I have not had a single person complain or stop following me. If they started getting more advertisers so that I would get more Magpie tweets, I might quit or dial it back to like one in every 10 tweets or something. As of right now, I am getting less than one a day so its not bad and easy to ignore.

By: sidparajuli

sidparajuli — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:03:47 +0000

You cant put a price on friendsship and in this case if you want to make money at the cost of annoying people on twitter be prepared to lose dollwers. In the days of using adblock on browsers such as firefox, dont try your luck by trying to implement ads.

By: Giannii

Giannii — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:17:27 +0000

Sean,

I completely agree with the title as I am not fond of those tweets. Great topic!