I received an email today through Game­Zom­bie from the CEO of Mag­pie & Friends Ltd. about a new ad net­work for Twit­ter that works a lot like Google’s AdWords/AdSense. There are two sides to it– adver­tis­ers and those who tweet adver­tise­ments. I signed up to be the lat­ter. You can read more about how it works on your own, but I’m more con­cerned with how ads on twit­ter will effect the ser­vice. Most peo­ple use the ser­vice to sim­ply say what they’re doing and some have dis­cov­ered it’s a great way to get the word out about their lat­est blog post, ser­vice, or prod­uct. It is a gen­uine way to inter­act with other peo­ple and com­pa­nies, so what hap­pens to those gen­uine con­nec­tions when adver­tise­ments are peri­od­i­cally inserted into the stream?

I cur­rently have 79 fol­low­ers when I opted into #mag­pie. I’m going to allow them to insert 1 ad after 10 orig­i­nal tweets by me. They should be tar­geted towards top­ics I’ve been dis­cussing (web design, school, cur­rent events, etc.). I’m hop­ing my fol­low­ing will con­tinue to grow and that the #mag­pie tweets don’t make my already estab­lished con­nec­tions seem disingenuous.

Mag­pie quoted my earn­ings to be around 40 euros a month when I first signed up, but I think that’s assum­ing I stick with their default 1 ad per 5 tweets. If I could make 20 euros (about $25) a month just from tweet­ing, I’d be a very happy camper. Heck, if I earned that a year it would pay for a few domains.

If you’re an adver­tiser think­ing about set­ting up an account, please use my refer­ral URL! I’ll get 30% com­mis­sion for the first year the adver­tiser runs campaigns.

http://be-a-magpie.com/d6qubl

Leave your thoughts about #mag­pie and adver­tis­ing through Twitter!