Getting Paid To Twitter? You In?

I’ve been noticing more and more people talking about advertising companies that are paying you to tweet about products or services that advertisers are willing to pay for you to tweet.  I have to be completely honest, I’m all about making money, in fact, I believe (especially when you’re first starting out) that if there is something you’re doing that could be making you money, your stupid not to do it.

Of course, I’m not talking about anything unethical, and I don’t feel that advertising on twitter is unethical, but I have to be honest…I’m not sure if I like it or not.  I signed up for a company that I’ve been reading about on a couple different blogs named Ad.ly.  They are a company that you can sign up for, and then advertisers can offer you to tweet about their products or services.  Of course, you have complete control on which ones you choose to do or not, but I’m unsure if this makes it okay or not.

One thing I’ve always enjoyed about twitter is the fact that people recommend and give links to things they actually enjoy.  If they are getting paid to tweet will it cause their trust of their account and links to be devalued by their followers?

I’m actually torn on this and I think we’ll only find out through testing.  Part of me believes that the more people are tweeting links that they are getting paid for, the less trusting their followers will be when they post links.  However, another part of me believes that we’ll see the same things as with paid reviews on blogs.  I don’t’ think paid reviews lower the content value or trust of blogs because they are normally disclosed very well and also, they provide bloggers with money that encourage them to pump out more content.

Anyways, so I signed up for Ad.ly but I’m unsure yet if I’ll use them or not, and was simply wondering what your guys opinions were on twitter and advertising…  So what do you think?

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