A Twitter account is worth $1000+
Dan Thornton | June 6, 2008Well, a twitter account is worth $1002.01 if you’re Ian Schaefer, the CEO of Interactive Marketing agency Deep Focus, and the person currently auctioning a one-month sponsorship of his Twitter page and profile.
What you get for your cash is:
- Background image of your choice on Ian’s profile page, and the replacement of his profile photo with your image.
- Brand representation in 8-10 outbound ‘tweets’ per day.
- Coverage of the experience on his blog.
The money raised is going to charity, but possibly the most interesting part of the experiment is Ian’s motivation: “Someone’s got to figure out some kind of business model with Twitter. And I’d rather be part of the solution.”
It’s the same thinking which has seen Tweeple start selling individual posts, and hypothesizing about how Twitter can use the extra 20 characters for mobile (160 characters is the limit).
There’s still 18 hours left on the auction at the time of writing, so by tomorrow night we’ll see how much a Twitter account is worth. You can watch the ebay auction, here.
And, for the record, Ian’s got 495 followers, which leaves me wondering how much cash I could raise with my 600? 
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