Comments on: Making money with Twitter backgrounds

By: Jonas

Jonas — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:00:52 +0000

@Dan: Your right. Maybe there is a need for a buy/sell-twitter profiles market? But that’s probably against their policy etc

By: 140Char » Let people know who you are and why you’re following

140Char » Let people know who you are and why you’re following — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:48:29 +0000

[...] using your Twitter background to serve up some information. You can pay professionals, or just experiment with your own image, containing some info on [...]

By: Dan Thornton

Dan Thornton — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:29:35 +0000

@Jonas,
Thanks for the comment, and I’m happy to write in more detail about Tweetvalue to save you having to post the link!

But at the end of the day, the point most online valuation services ignore is that a Twitter profile is only worth as much as someone is willing to pay.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:58:17 +0000

How much is your twitter profile worth? http://tweetvalue.com

By: Dan Thornton

Dan Thornton — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:36:15 +0000

I have to admit I’m not convinced by any monetisation of a Twitter background, although I have spoken to the guys at Twittad, and will be asking them for some idea of their response rates.

Personally, even when using the web interface, I tend to scan through the Tweet content and then click on someone’s external link rather than examining their background for information or advertising, so unless it attempts to work on a subliminal level, I’m not sure it will work.

Having said that, I could be proved wrong!

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:48:53 +0000

The ProBlogger background sits really well with the Twitter interface. Dan, how much visibility do you think these will have considering how ‘disintermediated’ profile URLs can become? My Twitter-desktop-client-addicted friends tell me they rarely visit Twitter.com (I’m on it every day).