OK, so I’ve got 3,200+ followers on my Twitter profile (follow me already HERE!), and now 8 followers to my $9.99/month “premium” Twitterstream (you can sign up right HERE):
(that message was meant for SuperChirp only since they limit me to charging $10/month…I didn’t know it’d be my “sales sheet” to get more premium followers LOL…rest assured, I ain’t doing anything for $10/month, grab this deal now because I can guarantee you, my private Twitterfeed will be more like $99-$499/month)
Here’s what I now see when I logon to my SuperChirp page:
So what exactly is my “premium” Twitterstream going to be about? I dunno, I’ll definitely try to integrate into my TIMalerts real-time trade alert subscription product (better sign up HERE now because June 12th is our 1-year anniversary and to celebrate, prices are going up to $50/month next week in a further effort to weed out people too poor/leveraged/unfit to trade)
Gawker think it’s going nowhere, ripping me in THIS ill-researched article (Ryan, I ain’t fallen no more, you must have me confused with the finance industry itself (PS Trader Monthly ripped on me and now they’re out of business, do better research to avoid the same fate), I guess I gotta brag more about my 370%+ return over the past 18 months & now yearlong domination of the only site that tracks 25,000+ traders, Covestor (Ryan, did you miss THIS URL showing my #1 rank? I think you did!)…but who really cares what a gossip site thinks!
Slightly more credible TechCrunch said:
A new service from 83 Degrees called Super Chirp launches this evening that lets Twitter users get paid for their content stream.
This is a theme we’ve touched on in the past. There is a huge market for celebrity fan pages that Super Chirp will play right into. In fact, 83 Degrees CEO Narendra Rocherolle wrote a guest post here last year called A Missed Opportunity – Britney On Twitter where he talks about the idea. Twitter is mobile and it’s real time, two huge advantages over normal fan sites. And it’s constantly refreshed with new content. Britney Spears has 1.7 million Twitter followers. How many of them would be willing to pay $1, or $10, per month to see a premium stream of her content?
Here’s how Super Chirp works. Unlike Twitpub, where publishers have to create a new Twitter account, Super Chirp works through direct messages (Twitter’s private message system). That means publishers can leverage their existing Twitter accounts to promote the paid streams. Users subscribe to the content on the Super Chirp site, pay via Paypal, and then get the messages via DM. They can also visit Super Chirp to see all those paid messages, and sort them by publisher.
This is a natural product for celebrities to embrace. But it’s also interesting for charities – loyal supporters can donate to the charity and get a stream of news relevant to that charity, or whatever. Some news outlets may try to charge for streams as well. I could imagine that at least some of our followers on our main Twitter account would pay to get additional information if it had enough value.
Any publisher that wants to sign up can as long as they have a Twitter account. The publisher sets the price, between $0.99 and $9.99 per month. Super Chirp keeps 30% of the gross, and that includes the Paypal fees. So the Publisher ends up with 70%
I think it’s a fantastic idea that at the very least may prove out the product for Twitter itself. If Twitter launches something like this directly, Super Chirp could become irrelevant quickly. Although, if I were running Twitter and Super Chirp got traction, I’d buy the service and port over the publishers and paying users to keep it all going.
Update: Here’s one guy who has already signed up. Looks like he’ll be doing $9.99/month stock tips — but he’d like Super Chirp to up the range.
Andrew Warner of Mixergy (the guy who dominates just about everyone in blogosphere having created a company with $30 mil/year in revenues…but what were the profits AW, tell us pleaseeeee!) seems to be one of the few voices of reason saying:
Right on Tim. Timothy Sykes is one of the best online marketers. The guy knows how to draw an audience and how to get them to take out their credit cards.
In the end, it’s just one more way I can get my good, proven, experienced insight out to you guys…so signup to my premium Twitterstream now and be one of the few guinea pigs to see how this will play out!
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