It’s been 75 days since I signed up for the some­what con­tro­ver­sial ad net­work for Twit­ter so I’d thought I’d give an update on how much bling-bling I’m rak­ing in by allow­ing them to insert tweets into my time­line that are ads for other prod­ucts related to what I tweet about.

 

Log of paying tweets from be-a-magpie.com

Log of pay­ing tweets from be-a-magpie.com

In two and a half months, I’ve earned €1.78 from 6 ad tweets. That’s no where close to the €40~ per month they quoted me orig­i­nally when I signed up. What’s worse is that the ads have become very infre­quent even though I’ve been tweet­ing more and more since Novem­ber and almost dou­bled my fol­low­ers. Either they are strug­gling to find adver­tis­ers or what I tweet about is too spo­radic for them to hone in an audience.

I still have it set to tweet one ad for every ten of my tweets, but I tweeted 900 times in Decem­ber and Novem­ber and only had 3 ad tweets! (read: some­thing is obvi­ously broken)

I’m going to keep on with the #mag­pie tweets since they haven’t chased away my fol­low­ers on Twit­ter and even with their poor return should make me enough by the end of the year to renew my domain. Some­thing I did do last month was turn off the pro­mo­tion tweets for #mag­pie that tried to entice oth­ers to join with my affil­i­ate URL. For a few days it was going crazy and tweeted way more than my set­ting of every other day. 

I’m going to try and fit the Mag­pie badge in my footer in case any vis­i­tors want to sign up (and earn me some com­mis­sion). Is any­one else using #mag­pie and see­ing good returns? What about other sites like Twittad.com that replaces your back­ground on your pro­file with an ad?