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Paying followers on Twitter – Ellen offers $1000

August 11th, 2009 · Comments

If you’re thinking about paying to increase your number of Twitter followers, you may have to increase your offer after Ellen DeGeneres announced she would randomly reward one follower with $1000.
The offer came as part of winning ‘Choice Twit’ in the Teen Choice Awards, and was not only hinted at on Twitter, but was also [...]

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Tags: twitter

Getting paid to play… social networking for cash…

October 23rd, 2007 · Comments

A new social network site is offering to pay users for taking part. Yuwie aims to reward users for activity and referring more friends to the network, taking inspiration from old-style pyramid schemes.
You get paid for changing your profile, posting content, and when users look at your profile and content. And you get a [...]

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Tags: business · user generated content