Comments on: Selling Twitter accounts – what’s this b.s.?

By: MD

MD — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:50:54 +0000

so where does one actually sell their Twitter account….mine have been valued at over $9,000 dollars…thnx

By: Tom Gurney@Twitter Art

Tom Gurney@Twitter Art — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:22:09 +0000

I agree with you, but if he makes some money from selling, maybe the people who are in the wrong are the buyers, who basically have a twitter account which i’d expect will quickly lose followers over time and be worthless. That’s the fickle nature of the internet where one community can be sold for millions, then suddenly everyone goes somewhere else and it becomes worthless.

By: Rick Mahn

Rick Mahn — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:11:39 +0000

wr3n, Jon – I’ve been wondering the same thing for the past day, and it finally made me a bit mad (sorry). To me, this just devalues Twitter itself.

wr3n – your point on private followers is very important. One wonders if he did contact each of those followers and let them know – it is a privacy issue for sure. Those users opted-in for keeping their posts private, and need to be notified.

Cheers,
Rick

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:10:46 +0000

The whole “how to monetize twitter” has been bothering me for a while now. A lot of the “top people” (those with a lot of followers) use that to their advantage. Essentially like a mined database of emails but instead it’s twitter accounts. Conversations like “I have 50,000 followers, if I mention your project it will be seen by 50,000 people. At .10/person that means I’m worth $5,000.” That type of mindset bothers me. I don’t want to thousands of followers to make money. I do want thousands of followers (vrillusions on twitter ) but for the community aspect. Like if I send a message “I am looking at tv’s which is better, Samsung or Sharp?” it would be great if I actually got responses. I ask open questions like that now and I get no responses simply because my audience isn’t big enough.

By: JonMierow

JonMierow — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:06:43 +0000

I’m not sure what is crazier: him selling it or that its going for $1500+? I’m also not sure exactly what the bidders think they’re getting. I can’t imagine that any of his 1700+ followers would continue after the sale. Unless your name also happens to be Andrew Baron, why bid? What is the reasoning for him to sell it?
Was it an experiment to see if it would actually work? Did he just simply want to try and be the first person to sell a Twitter account? Was it a PR stunt to drum up some buzz about his name?

By: wren

wren — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:04:47 +0000

It’s bizarre. Yet there are lame marketers out there who’d probably buy it.

I would hope if there’s anyone he follows who’s accounts are privatized that he lets them know some stranger will soon be able to read their updates.

By: Doug McCaughan

Doug McCaughan — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:56:13 +0000

Seth Godin has 3392 followers and follows 0 because it's not him. Seth Godin doesn't use Twitter. It looks like in some cases it has hurt Seth Godin's reputation so perhaps the same will happen to Andrew Baron's..um..does he have a good reputation?