Pay With A Tweet
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But this is about Twitter the platform rather than Twitter the organisation isn't it? It's closer to formalising the sort of promo the MacHeist guys do where you get extra stuff for tweeting about them.
I must admit I like the idea as a business. It's limitation is that the more successful it is, the more frequent it's messages, the more spam like it becomes, the more people will hate it and the less successful it will become...
Which is to say that pwat could be totally effective in being a payment mechanism, but only if the stakes of the pwat's message are high enough to equate to a non-trivial reblogging of a url.
If enthusiasm isn't authentic .. who's going to take notice?
If the generated buzz isn't actually generating interest organically, then this scheme is just about link building .. which is equivalent to spamming imo.
And, even if some rooks do not have that understanding, it will not ruin things for those of us that do, because we will unfollow them.
As opposed to spam or other Twitter ad-networks where you need thousands of followers before you can earn a dollar, this creates a win-win situation for both the payer and the payee. Instead of hoping that people who downloaded your free product will recommend it to others, you can now rely on it.
However, you tweet before you have seen the product. Thus you might be recommending crap to your followers that you would rather warn them about.
And a loss for every follower of the "payer".
I've seen it once, which is a lot less than I've seen people checking in with Foursquare stuff which is excruciatingly boring.
Also - can't we just filter this out from a client?
Stumbled across Pay With A Tweet in the wild a couple of weeks ago and thought it was quite novel. That said, I didn't know that it let you customise the message and didn't really know the band I was checking out, so I didn't make use of it.
which would monitor your tweets and then distribute your monthly $3 to the sites or persons.
That way your donating that you have interest or a book that you have read. Instead of spamming your friends
And if they become truly prevalent, I'll delete my twitter account (which I was already kinda on-the-fence about).
I don't mind these things. If I have friends who abuse them I unfollow them or hide their updates.
The only thing I'd like is to know that I can get the product / service the old fashioned way if I want by paying cash, and keeping my soul clean if that's what I choose to do.
I could see myself using this to purchase things that I think my followers would like, or at least not hate.
Plus I've seen plenty of things like this on Twitter already: "RT this to be entered to win!". It doesn't anger me when I see those things from the cool people I follow.
At first it did seem like spamming, but I am at peace with it now. It is analogous to the FB Like button. You should only tweet out stuff that you like, and want to share and download.
The key is to give a sample of the product (in our case song clip) before broadcasting to your social network. I think we could even allow full song stream, and still see similar download/tweet numbers.
In a world where musicians don't get real currency, they are asking for your social currency.
About the spamming bit: It is a genuine recommendation. You are directly recommending that product. It is not like a product where you have to recommend some other product that you don't care about or don't even care to use.
Every tweet is to be judge by a case by case basis.