Okay, I lied. I didn’t just use Twitter. I signed up for Magpie as well.
So what is Magpie? As many of you know, there’s currently a controversial new Twitter Advertising Company called Magpie, a company located in Germany. Magpie places relevant advert “tweets” which are placed along with your existing tweets. They pay according to 4 different models: pay per view, pay per click, pay per lead and pay per sale. Many people don’t like having adverts in
Just like any other Entrepreneurial Teenager would do, I signed up for this service (with a sub account) to experiment with it. At first, the adverts were about Magpie itself, or Magpie’s parent company’s other product called Stock Pilot. And then I discovered they paid an extremely high €20-30 per pay-per-view tweet. You can cash out after you reach €50. Now, simple maths can tell you that with only 2 magpie tweets, you can get up to €50 in your PayPal already! An example of the tweets are shown below.
So you might be asking, I made $337.91 (or €256.06) from something as simple as this? Well, it’s the truth. Check out my PayPal history:
A total of €256.06 from Magpie
Update: On April 30th, I received yet another €67.84 from Magpie, which brings that to a total of €323.90 (or $429.70) just for the month of April. Not Bad.So that’s all there is to the Magpie program. There’s so little work involved, anyone could earn a few euros with no experience.
I know Twitter  is for real people, and asks the question “What are you doing right now?”, not “What are you advertising right now? “.  But these magpie are actually relevant to your normal tweets, making them less like “advertising”, and sometimes they make it hard for someone to realize if it’s an ad or a real tweet.
Therefore, I’m closing the experiment down. But if you’ll like to experiment with Magpie and prehaps earn a few dollars euros, I suggest you to sign up for Magpie. Who knows, you might even get a few hundreds euros just like me!
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May 1st, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Nice work! Good to see you are always trying new ideas
I just started using twitter and am absolutely loving it. So much value in it as an internet marketer.
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May 2nd, 2009 at 2:42 am
Wow. That’s a good rate. This is probably something good to exploit now since I’m sure it will get devalued just like good ole Adsense.
But it sounds like it could be a profitable ride for now.
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Online TV (6 comments) Reply:
July 28th, 2009 at 8:45 am
Amazing rate but not so sure they actually pay that anymore. Research shows the average is like 0.07-0.10 pounds – min payout at like 50 pounds.
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May 2nd, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Why would you shut down the experiment if your making money off of it? Just wondering, doesn’t seem like something worth stopping if you are earning. Would love to hear reasons why you are stopping.
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Josh Lam (10 comments) Reply:
May 3rd, 2009 at 6:20 am
To be honest, I’m just stopping it on my personal account @Joshlam. It’s still being experimentated with my sub-accounts
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May 2nd, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Looks good! Thanks for posting this up, im gonna sign up now and hopefully earn some money
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May 2nd, 2009 at 5:04 pm
hey I am on the magpie site, but all it wants is for me to make a campaign and promote on there vs. signing up and promote other people? SO, how did you?
Kris
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Melvin (106 comments) Reply:
May 3rd, 2009 at 6:06 am
dude read! look at the twitters at the header and click the link!
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May 2nd, 2009 at 7:53 pm
I’d also like to know why you’re shutting down?
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Josh Lam (10 comments) Reply:
May 3rd, 2009 at 6:19 am
The adverts are usually considered “spamming”. If you’re careful, it should be okay.
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May 3rd, 2009 at 12:09 am
Interesting idea, I will try soon….
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May 3rd, 2009 at 12:44 am
Thank you for sharing. Very interesting way to earn some “extra” money – specially from Twitter!
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May 3rd, 2009 at 6:03 am
Hey thanks for letting us know.. if i cashed in $500 w/it, I’ll send you a shirt!
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May 3rd, 2009 at 10:27 am
How many followers did you have on the account that you made this money on?
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Josh Lam (10 comments) Reply:
May 4th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
I had it on two accounts. One has 16k followers, while the other has 27k followers.
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May 4th, 2009 at 9:25 am
Sounds great, I think I’ll sign up, thanks for sharing
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May 4th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Aah.. I had earlier suspended my Magpie! account coz ppl were considering the tweets as spam and I didn’t knew that Magpie actually paid.
But, after reading this post, I again started Magpie ads.. Hope to see some good outcome..
Great post though Josh.
-Mahesh.
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Josh Lam (10 comments) Reply:
May 4th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Thanks Mahesh.
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May 4th, 2009 at 11:04 am
Very interesting. The rate is amazing and it sounds quite simple. I’ll have to check it out.
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May 5th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
More than the post itself, the comments and your responses have been very illuminating. I envy you.
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May 6th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Did you block off the other type of ads(pay-per-click – pay-per-lead – pay-per-sale)?
By the way, thanks for this post, it’s some valuable information
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Josh Lam (10 comments) Reply:
May 7th, 2009 at 7:14 am
I only blocked Pay-per-sale ads, even though I made around €5 from it, it’s not much.
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May 10th, 2009 at 4:47 am
I found your topic when I was looking for some ways to make money online.
I’ve been wondering about it for a long time. I’ll try Magpie. Hope that can make some euro
Thank for writing
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May 11th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
So this only works for euros not dollars?
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Josh Lam (10 comments) Reply:
May 16th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Yes, for the time being. But you can always convert your currency to US dollars in PayPal.
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May 12th, 2009 at 8:16 am
I personally feel that Stanley Tang who is great web entrepreneur will succeed in life but for Josh Lam, maybe he would have to wander around the streets to beg for food in order to survive…
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May 25th, 2009 at 9:06 am
Well done. I can only envy, because I never have the patience to bring all my effort until the end …
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June 21st, 2009 at 11:39 am
So this is the magic of magpie not of twitter only.
But however earning is vital if this is coming from the reliable and genuine source.
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July 26th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
I’m going to try this out, I have over 10,000 followers so maybe it will send me some real cash
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March 4th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
I was checking old posts. Anybody here made some money?
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