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Stars Making Half a Million a Year via Twitter

Celebs making up to $50K per month pitching products to fans

By Emily Rauhala, Newser User

Posted Oct 25, 2010 4:58 AM CDT

(Newser) – American celebrities are raking in up to $50,000 a month for tweeting on behalf of brands. A single shout-out from 50 Cent or Snoop Dogg, for instance, can earn them $5,000, finds the Sun. The pay-per-tweet model is now heading across the pond, and UK celebs won't be required to use "spon" or "ad" to mark paid tweets. A government official urged the country's famous folk to tweet responsibly: "If people don't reveal a tweet is paid for it could undermine fans' trust," he warns. (Click here to find out how not to be a jerk on Twitter.)

Snoop Dogg makes big bucks off Twitter. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)

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coldwontrise

Oct 26, 2010 12:01 PM CDT

Just want to bring to everyone's attention that $50,000 is not half a million... Off by a factor of ten!

fancygapva

Oct 26, 2010 7:14 AM CDT

scallywag

Oct 26, 2010 12:19 AM CDT

Couldn’t this precedent of paying for using social media signal what’s to come? That in short the artist or writer is no more than the laborer of the digital era. ( A quick peek over the desk can see our editor brutally nodding). Has anyone else even considered that the romanticized ideals of being a writer, artist have long been corrupted, even brutally co-opted all to make mindlessly working for every second of your life seem so unbearably fun? http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2010/10/shouldnt-you-be-like-celebs-and-make-500000-a-year-with-twitter/

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