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Friday, November 21, 2008

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How much is a Twitter follower worth?

The L.A. Times ponders today how much a Twitter follower is worth. “The service is becoming a valuable way to instantly broadcast promotional material, draw people’s attention to cultural or political activities, and just basically wield power and influence. So followers in a very real sense equal money.” Another valuable benefit to many followers not mentioned is the “instant focus group” or crowdsourcing effect. So the questions are: How much would you have to pay to someone with 1,000 followers to send out your message? (Yuck! Please don’t ever let this happen.) And how much would you pay people to follow you? The L.A. Times writer would pay a dime a follower. He should read Clay Shirky on micropayments. Read the story.

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