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Sponsored Tweets and IZEA – Is This Twitter’s Future?

I caught a tweet from Ted Murphy today, about how a celebrity was paid $2,500 to post a sponsored tweet. Ted is the founder and CEO of IZEA, the company that owns SocialSpark and PayPerPost. Both SocialSpark and PayPerPost offer bloggers the chance to earn money from paid product reviews. It’s a contentious topic that generally splits blogger opinion down the middle, with both sides offering valid reasons for their views for and against sponsored posts or paid blogging. Personally,…read more