How I Made Money Spamming Twitter with Contextual Book Suggestions

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19 points·thirdusername··5 comments

To us, unemployment is a brief sprint of academia

This is an amazing line. I don't know whether putting in "sprint" where you would expect "stint" is wholly intentional, but it is genius.

This was talked about a couple months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1600693

(FYI), I was confused about the table structure so I looked it up. The revenue number is his raw retail sales value generated, and his "advertising fee" is his commission earned on those sales. Amazon has a chart for how much you can earn (https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/join/comp...)

So he was only making about $100/month, which is cool for some extra food money, but with his cleverness, I could see him easily figuring out some scheme to generate thousands like most blackhat affiliate marketers.

I once used Mechanical Turk to filter leads taken from a keyword search on Twitter, generate customized responses, and vet those customized responses through a voting process. My goal was to add a very human element to direct marketing and do it cheaply. I ended the experiment as sales weren't converting enough to justify the expense. It was a fun experiment though.

I was eager to try this thing but...

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Is it down?

Also, does anyone know anything similar but with movies?

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