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Weekend Roundup #135

Jaypee Habaradas — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:53:17 +0000

Hi there! Welcome to the 135th edition of the Weekend Roundup. I know that it’s very late but I didn’t want to skip and miss publishing this week’s edition. I didn’t have any intentions of neglecting this weekly feature but part of the reason why I’ve been publishing these articles late is that the past few weekends has been very busy and full of activities. Last weekend being the most busy of them all. Been busy with a lot of personal stuff including trying to fix my wife’s Asus Eee 1005HAB.

Anyways, hope you guys still enjoy reading and find these articles and links useful. Btw, don’t forget about the WPMU DEV Premium Elite Membership Giveaway where you can get a chance of winning a WPMU Dev Premium Elite Membership worth $420. Contest ends tomorrow so you still have several more hours to join.

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Weekend Roundup #134

Jaypee Habaradas — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:22:45 +0000

Hello everyone! Hope you all had a good weekend especially all the fathers out there since yesterday was Father’s Day. My apologies for another late edition of the Weekend Roundup. The past few days including this past weekend was just real busy. Anyways, hope you still enjoy reading the articles and links I’ve gathered and shared for the 134th edition of the Weekend Roundup.

Just a reminder, I’m giving away 3 1-year WPMU DEV Premium Elite Memberships worth $420/each. Check out the official contest/giveaway post for more details.

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Weekend Roundup #97

Jaypee Habaradas — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 05:26:23 +0000

Hello folks! Hope you all had a good weekend. Made sure that I posted this week’s edition of the Weekend Roundup on time. Actually, I could’ve posted it earlier if it were not for the terrible, splitting headache I got from the heat. Tried to get some rest and sleep it off as soon as I got home and thankfully, it went away after a couple hours.

Anyways, I’ve added a new category in the Weekend Roundup – SEO (Search Engine Optimization). It is a popular topic that I’m sure most of guys are interested in so I thought about adding it here. Hope you enjoy this week’s edition of the Weekend Roundup.

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Weekend Roundup #63

Jaypee Habaradas — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:50:30 +0000

Hi folks! Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. My apologies for publishing this week’s edition of the Weekend Roundup a bit late. Actually, I already had this draft ready since Sunday night and just needed a few minor polishing but I wasn’t feeling that well and then the next day, a few things came up which required my attention so I wasn’t able to finish and publish it on time.

Anyways, I know many of you are waiting for the results of the Thanksgiving Giveaway. Don’t worry, I’ll be posting the list of winners later on today as promised. I just have to go through all the entries one more time and check that everyone gets full credit for their entries.

Well, here’s this week’s edition of the Weekend Roundup and I hope you folks like it. Enjoy!

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IZEA Launches Sponsored Tweets

Jaypee Habaradas — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:03:45 +0000

I’m sure most of you who are on Twitter are already familiar with Twittad and Magpie, Twitter advertising networks/services that provide Twitter users a way to make money on Twitter. Yesterday, IZEA, the company behind Social Spark and PayPerPost unveiled its newest online money making service called Sponsored Tweets.

What is Sponsored Tweets?

Sponsored Tweets is a Twitter advertising service that matches tweeters with advertisers. It allows marketers to hire both celebrity and long tail twitter users based on categories, keywords and other data. Twitter users tweet out messages on behalf of the advertiser in a transparent and honest fashion. SponsoredTweets.com is a self-service platform.

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What makes Sponsored Tweets different from TwitThis and Magpie?

Compared to other Twitter advertising services that were launched before it, Sponsored Tweets is not only well funded but it also learned from the mistakes and weaknesses of its competitors by adapting transparency, ethics and employing the help/services of celebrity Twitter users.

To get a closer view of how it works, I’ve signed up with Sponsored Tweets and this is how the control panel looks like:

As a user, you can set the price/amount you charge per tweet or click, select the ad type, your tweet category (business, entertainment, technology), specify content type (everyone, mature, adults only), define keywords and set up the notification settings. The user can accept or reject offers or opportunities from advertisers. If the user decides to accept a certain offer, the user’s account will be credited within 24 hours after the tweet was sent. Once the account accumulates a minimum of $50, the user can then withdraw the money.

Transparency, Ethics, Disclosure

Disclosure is 100% mandatory. Sponsored Tweets require all advertisers and tweeters to include a disclosure phrase to their tweets. Sponsored Tweets goes an extra step to ensure 100% disclosure by using an automated disclosure engine. Below is a video on how the automated disclosure engine works:

Celebrity Tweeters

One of Sponsored Tweets’ strategies is to use celebrity tweeters to endorse and use the product. Such celebrities include Kim Kardashian, Playboy Playmates Holly Madison & Kendra Wilkinson, comedian Carrot Top, chef Bethenny Frankel and web celebrities like Chris Pirillo, Neil Patel, Jeremy “Shoemoney” Shoemaker and John Chow just to name a few.

My Take:
If you ask me, Sponsored Tweets and the likes only work for Tweeters who have a large following and have a certain level of authority on a certain niche. Even if you have a large following and even if you’re a celebrity, not all of your followers will want to click on a link especially if they know that it’s a sponsored tweet.

Although earning extra income would be a nice idea, I’ve stayed away from these type of services from the first time they were introduced. I’ve already deactivated my account on Sponsored Tweets. Like I said earlier, I only signed up for an account just to have a closer look on the system and I have no plans of reactivating it. I’m not saying that this is bad and that you shouldn’t use it or sign up with them. Its just a personal preference of mine and I want it to stay that way.

How about you guys? What do you think of Sponsored Tweets? Would you sell sponsored tweets on your Twitter account? Would you click on a sponsored tweet link? Please share your thoughts.