I’m assuming the same dynamics which drives blog sales will drive Twitter sales. Although Twitter is way more personal and intimate, all lists have value. Monetize, monetize, monetize

Haha, who said stupid ideas can’t make money?

Lol, his highest bid is already at $500+! That’s a pretty good return for nothing and there’s no guarantee.

Current bid $510 with 26 total bids. I really hope that is a joke because a twitter follower is not worth more than $0.25 each in my opinion.

that quote is funny on a couple of different levels.

LOL - desperate times call for desperate moves!

I don’t know jack about twitter, but it seems to me this “list” for sale is not really a list if it is based on followers.

When someone follows you, you don’t have their email right? Nor do you have any control over them not following you any more.

To the current high bidder, if you are reading this… I have a great startup idea I need investment money for. It will revolutionize the Internet and make money from ads. It is a combination of Digg, Myspace, Twiiter and Web 4.0 technologies. Please “follow” me in twitter for more information.

[...] a interesting post over at Shoe today regarding an eBay action. Apparently some guy are selling his Twitter account [...]

I am more shocked by the price it currently shows.. Insane!

Hehe, funny way he have made such amount of followers. By following others himself. The account is not worth anyway near $500. Some place under $100 in my opinion.

Wow I can’t believe it’s going for $500+ . Lame. I can see where a Twitter account with a generic name might be worth something but not a personal account with a real name.

I am fairly sure that Andrew really isn’t selling the account. I think this move was more of a publicity stunt and a point maker. The correlation I see here is the idea that following his twitter feed is opt in, kinda of like subscribing to a blog’s RSS feed. He might be making the point of “If it is ok to sell a blog, why isn’t it ok to sell a twitter account?”

Just my 2 cents.

AJ Vaynerchuk
@ajvchuk on twitter

It looks like Rocketboom is going Boom in his face. How can you sell a community? Sure it can be used as a market list, but only for the community it was founded on. The second I’d get new tweets about something I didn’t sign on to get, I’d unfollow. Bad idea. Looks like he should have stayed teaching at MIT.

Man was there a need to sell your IM type account?
Andrew now gives many people an idea to make money in a new way!

Selling your twitter account would have been a nice link bait, wish I would have thought of it

This will be pretty interesting to follow. In the last week we’ve had prominent figures delete their twitter account all together and now someone has decided to put their account up for sale, what’s next?

[...] was laughing a while ago while reading Shoemoney’s article about Andrew Baron putting up his Twitter Account on Ebay. See Andrew Baron’s Twitter up on Ebay here. It’s currently worth $510 and so far [...]

If people are willing to buy it then maybe there would be a new market in twitter sales. Must be link bait or something similar

On the other hand, you got to hand it to him, he’s making money out of thin air, with no monetary investment.

A silly concept, yes. A good idea for fast cash? You bet. Wish it was me? Definitely.

*runs off to try to copy that loser…

Andrew is looking for the Buzz and it’s working: first title homepage of Techmeme

Agree it’s attention bait, when is the last time you heard anything about rocketboom since cogdon left?

The bid is up at $1000+ now! I don’t know which is more sad: selling the account or buying it for $1000+. For that amount you could easily build your own Twitter account with 1400 followers.

/Andreas

Also how silly is it to bid more than $US 1,000 on an item from an eBay seller with zero-zilch-zippo feedback?!
And, no offense shoe, but why did you not route the link to his listing through your AuctionAds / ShoppingAds account? Maybe the buyer of that twitter thang will earn you a bit of dosh in commission

WTF (cont’d) - the bloke is using Craig’s List to blag 2-day ‘guest slot’ on his twitter for US$ 150! See http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/com/640829551.html
Hopefully Jeremy won’t get any ideas and start billing folks for leaving comments on the shoemoney blog. Wot next?!

What we can do is BID VERY VERY HIGH and just end up cancelling the purchase after you win. I’ve seen this happening a lot when Wiis were REALLY in demand

The seller is going to end up paying huge fees

doesn’t make sense to met at all, crazy thing is it’s worth over $1100 so far…his quote is classic!

If this becomes a widespread practice, it could be the end of Twitter as we know it.

By the way, if 1,397 followers are worth $1,125 (currently), is it safe to say Robert Scoble could sell his account (with 18,951 followers) for $15,261?

This is getting weird these days.Web 2.0 style.

Im gonna beat him by selling my yahoomail account

This is crazy, then maybe create one of those accounts a month and sell to make a tidy little income. Weird is the word.

I have one that has 330 followers, I hold out to get a few more coins

It seems inconceivable that someone believes that this is worth nearly $1 per user (at the current bid).

I can think of a lot more profitable ways to invest $1000 than trying to monetize someone’s twitter followers.

ive been trying to look for the real value of twitter until this crazy idea errupted! TWF!.. :).. i might as well work on twitter lolz!

Aw, no fair… I was going to write on this tomorrow.

If he did it for the link bait that was a good idea. He’s all over techmeme which could be good for him but selling the account is a total joke.

I wonder if the bid got this high because someone from this blog is bidding on it. You may have unwittingly help him out Shoe. That’s very nice of you

I guess I’ve seen people spend their money on worse things.
~Terry

I guess this is no different than buying a myspace account with lots of friends, and that seems like a booming business for some people. Maybe this is the next step in that enterprise.

Lame. You could easily get that many followers by actively engaging yourself on the social network and actually networking. Add people and they will follow. If you buy the account and spam it to death, don’t expect to have those followers last for very long.

That said, I can’t believe that the auction is at $1125. Someone is seriously desperate. I could have done social media consulting for Twitter for half that price and given a lot more value.

Hey shoemonwy
Think I\ve seen about 10 articles describing this “twitter-account-selling” auction.
The seller has been absolutely smart making the stupidest action a gold mine by using our blogs as promoters.

It reminds me - I’m selling my feedburner domains -I have kinda creative domain names.
Anyway - I bet some idiot will buy it.

The question is how long before shoemoey and John chow chow sales their account on ebay. This may be the new trend in the money making scheme of the internet gurus.

can u ba my bf
please

I can’t believe it’s currently sitting at $1,125… and.. with 8 days left! wtf!

Ah what the hell… I just put one up on eBay. Account is BBC:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=110243252039

haha, if he can be able to sell it then he will have the last laugh!

Quite a cool link bait if you ask me. He will probably pull the auction before it ends.

I am looking at the price and that seems really stupid, $1,125, huh?

I could see value if the name being used was webmonkey or something generic, but unless your name is Andrew Barron, just doesn’t have the same value.

This was bound to happen. If people sell myspace and facebook accounts, they of course are going to sell Twitter accounts.

hahahahaha!
I knew it was coming for!
Anything going popular is for sale these days :p

and now we have another auction on eBay for An even COOLER Twitter Account and Followers for Sale - a WHOPPING 1,483 followers! only $0.01, bargain if you ask me lol

More to the point I think the value for the purchaser, like the seller, is in the publicity they will get for purchasing the Twitter account, regardless of what they do with it. The links and coverage alone will probably be worth tens of thousands of dollars.

Twitter is for twits anyways

How much can I get for my account? I think I have 2 followers.

You’re only helping him by posting this

That’s funny. I just got my own Twitter account - I have one follower so far!

I actually saw someone on Craig’s List trying to buy a highly well-commented ebay account.

It’s the internet. There’s always someone out there trying to sell something - and probably someone willing to buy it.

Hey, if somebody is willing to pay, Why not!

Pretty insane on the Twitter account, it’s over $1,500 now on eBay and there’s been more than 13,000 pageview on the auction.

It’s slowly creeping up ($1550) as of this comment with 40 bids.
~Terry

This is a pretty decent example of linkbait imo. The success is entirely due to the novelty value of this experiment, dont expect to see it replicated…hahahah…13,000 odd pageviews ain’t bad

Sheer Stupidity

I think there are some people on eBay who will buy anything…or they’re just desperate to “get rich quick.”

I can’t believe that as of now, there have been 40 bids on this auction, crazy!

This is hilarious, and it’s certainly a dumb move for anyone who buys it.

Considering ebay no longer accept auctions for “digital products” I wouldn’t be supprised if the auction is pulled.

Another way to get backlinks! That is really a cool idea..

Hey ! I’ll bid on anything. Would anybody like to buy my molar that I had extracted 20 years ago? Always wanted to do that - but thought my listing would get” pulled” by eBay !! HaHaHa.

There are suckers everyday that will buy anything, I’m pretty sure that is what this guy was counting on.

You can’t be serious! How is one person able to interact with so many? No wonder he’s selling, as he sure can’t be manageging!