1. Sick of writing your own crummy tweets for free, and wish someone else would pay you to post bad tweets? Wish no more!
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TweetPeddler is a service designed to let advertisers pay to have their messages tweeted out by popular accounts. The kind of advertisers who typically use this service are of a particular spammy sort - diet pill sellers, strange video sites, etc. Similarly, the kind of Twitter accounts who participate are similarly low-quality: the kinds of accounts that do 'relatable quotes' or fake celebrity accounts.
3. A typical 'real' tweet from @GirlStruggles (~5 million followers): Girl Problems@GirIStrugglesFollow
apparently teenagers need 10 hours of sleep a night to function properly maybe thats why i suck at everything
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4. A sponsored tweet through TweetPeddler (note the #ad hashtag at the end): Girl Problems@GirIStrugglesFollow
Custom 16'X20' Giclee Personalized Canvas Print on 1.5' Wood Gallery Barshttp://t.co/odtSlt75mE#ad
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Things Guys Like@Things4GuysFollow
God is real.#ad
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Things Guys Like@Things4GuysFollow
Being Raised As A Shitty Misogynist By Shitty Misogynist Dads and In Turn Raising Shitty Misogynist Sons#ads on my feed but I'll tell you what: I love to pee and I'm fully diaped. This is not an#f#ad
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Katie Notopoulos@katienotopoulosFollow
Buzzfeed is shit. I quit. I'm done with this garbage. the Koch Brothers can suck my ass. YES THIS IS MY OFFICIAL RESIGNATION#ad
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'Time posted: ' + UI.dateFormat.get_formatted_date('Wed Dec 18 20:51:02 +0000 2013', 'UTC') ); }); BF_STATIC.timequeue.push(function () { document.getElementById('update_tweet_posted_time_2169102').innerHTML = UI.dateFormat.get_formatted_date('Wed Dec 18 20:51:02 +0000 2013', 'tweet'); }); Reply Retweet Favorite
At the end of the day, I made about $30, half of which came after I raised the price from $1 to $15. Not bad, except for the part where I nearly lost my job. Basically, this is really dumb and no one should ever do it. Update - Dec. 19, 3:40p.m. ET: Shortly after this post went up, TweetPeddler's site went down, apparently due to high traffic volume. Didn't you all see my warning that no one should ever do this? Update - Dec. 20, 11:00a.m. ET A representative for TweetPeddler confirmed over email that it wasn't high traffic that caused it to shut down; Twitter shut it down due to terms of service violations. According to TweetPeddler, 'we are completely overhauling the site to be more compliant with Twitter's Terms and Conditions. We will be back in about a month.'
TweetPeddler@Tweet_PeddlerFollow
High volume of traffic has put a kink in our system. If you recently purchased a tweet that did not go through email our support team.
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