A twitter lesson that costed me $30 - be warned

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After checking buysellads and decided to buy a tweet there. The tweet cost was $30 and there are over 250000 followers. I was exited. I was anticipating a few thousand visitors to my site. Anyway, the tweet was twitted, and according to buysellads I got 12 clicks, but according to statcounter zero. I was surprised, how would it be possible a tweet with a reach of over 250000 to produce zero clicks. So I went to twitter and found my tweet. What I found is that this seller was sending tweet after tweet, all advertising. I counted over 70 tweets in 24 hours. So my tweet was virtually buried under new tweets minutes after it was out. The moral of the story is if it sounds too good to be true, probably isn't. The guy selling the tweets must be taking over $2000 a day. Now this is a business.
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  • Profile picture of the author thedark
    I also brought a tweet for 29$ that should got to about 110k followers. I checked the poster and he was posting an advertisment tweet once every 3 days. Also, he was posting about 10 times a day which I didn't considered so elevated. Despite the number of followers, I expected at least 100 visitors. ( really, you can't expect more ). But in reality, I received only about 10-20 clicks in statcounter. Buy sell ads reported 54 clicks.

    I wanted to give it a try, and I reckon that I was greedy and went for the best followers per dollar offer, but probably the responseviness was the reason why he charged so low. Despite the test I made was not concludent because I went for the cheapest offer, I won't try this again. If someone has good responsive followers then he better promotes an affiliate offer. Don't expect to get 1000 clicks for 30$. If he was able to get that to any offer, then he would charge much more than that. The truth is that this advertising source ( unless you find some good users ), is costing much more than other traditional sources where you pay per click ( adwords, etc )
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  • Profile picture of the author Daniel Evans
    Originally Posted by petkanov View Post

    The moral of the story is if it sounds too good to be true, probably isn't.
    You mean it probably is?

    Agreed though, you need to use due diligence when buying ads of any sort.
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      Originally Posted by petkanov View Post

      After checking buysellads and decided to buy a tweet there. The tweet cost was $30 and there are over 250000 followers. I was exited. I was anticipating a few thousand visitors to my site. Anyway, the tweet was twitted, and according to buysellads I got 12 clicks, but according to statcounter zero. I was surprised, how would it be possible a tweet with a reach of over 250000 to produce zero clicks. So I went to twitter and found my tweet. What I found is that this seller was sending tweet after tweet, all advertising. I counted over 70 tweets in 24 hours. So my tweet was virtually buried under new tweets minutes after it was out. The moral of the story is if it sounds too good to be true, probably isn't. The guy selling the tweets must be taking over $2000 a day. Now this is a business.
      Sounds like the old free-for-all links pages. When they first came out, your link would say on the front page for hours, sometimes days. Then came automation, and your link cycled off into oblivion in seconds.

      Just because the Twitter page says there are 250,000 'followers' does not mean there are a quarter of a million people signed up, or that they are paying any attention to the tweets sent from that page. There's no guarantee that they even exist anywhere but in Twitter's database.

      Oh, and it's not a business. At best, it's a short term hustle.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Having 250,000 mostly bot followers is great if you're selling tweets but not so great if you're buying tweets. The best way to market on Twitter is to build relationships with real people. Blasting out commercial tweets is not very sociable and Twitter is a social network.
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