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The Return of Pay Per Post: Your Twitter Feed (and Internet) is Just One Long, Subervisive Ad

Remember the moment you knew MySpace was doomed? It came in the form of obnoxious ads. Which your Twitter stream is about to be. So: are you making that cash, or being cashed in on? Pay Per Post is back.

Today, the Times runs a trend(ing) piece in the business section on how Twitter users are making serious cash Tweeting ads. Like, serious cash. How much?

Meet John Chow, a guy who makes money telling people how to make money online with his blog. Basically, imagine an infomercial about making infomercials. That’s this guy, who’s described as a “blogger and Internet entrepreneur.” Watch, he makes money:

Mr. Chow treated his 50,000 Twitter followers to a photograph of his lunch (barbecued chicken and French fries), discussed the weather in Vancouver and linked to a new post on his Internet business blog. Then he earned $200 by telling his fans where they could buy M&M’s with customized faces, messages and colors…In October, Mr. Chow’s income from Twitter ads was around $3,000. “I get paid for pushing a button,” he said.

$200 bucks. For telling people about M&Ms. Since the Times doesn’t, let’s take a look at what that Tweet looked like:

He’s got the designation of it being an ad in two characters, four if you count the parenthesis. He puts the designation of it being an ad after he places the link, so visually, your awareness doesn’t come into play until you’ve been given the chance to get to/click on whatever’s being sold. And four characters out of 88 comes to about 4.54% of the message. It looks subversive to me, and I know it’s an ad, but then again, I’m not dumb enough to follow this assclown in the first place. >>>> Continue reading here