Be-A-Magpie is an ad network for Twitter. It allows the twitterers to make money using their Twitter Network in a simple way. It provides a platform that enables the advertisers to share relevant, controlled and individualized content via social media optimization.
The users can sign-up either as a twitterer or as an advertiser. As far as payment process is concerned, this is handled by a web-commerce company PayPal, and hence, a PayPal account is a must.
For Twitterers
Unlike traditional social media optimization, it identifies key influencers for the users' brand and engages them to spread the word. There are a number of compensation models offered with different earning opportunities, at the pre-approval stage. Twitterers will be made aware of the compensation model linked to a particular campaign, enabling them to make an informed decision for their participation.
Be-A-Magpie works in the following way for the twitterers:
- Twitterer signs up with Twitter account details for free.
- Magpie service will identify campaigns which match the twitterer's account and occasionally tweet them.
- Every time a campaign is aired on the twitterer's account Magpie will reward with cash.
Apart from this, for any new Advertiser who signs up through your personal referral link, you will earn a 30% commission of Magpie's transaction fees. Not just once, but for the whole first year Advertiser buys campaigns on Magpie!
For Advertisers
The advertisers can sign up and create campaigns, which consist of magpie-tweets (i.e. ads). Twitterers get paid for allowing Magpie to post magpie-tweets among their tweets.It is not necessary for all the advertisers to have a Twitter account.
Magpie works in the following way for the advertisers:
- Create your campaigns providing a message and some keywords.
- Key influencers within the Magpie-Twitterer group are automatically selected.
- Your message is blended into the message stream of the selected Magpie-Twitterers.
Services like Be-A-Magpie also results in spam, caused by its affiliates trying to make money. Here are few suggestions you can follow, so that you don't annoy your followers:
- Set the number of ads to a low display frequency.
- Do not set auto approve ads instead manually review all the ads.
- Choose ads to your twitter profile that you might normally tweet about.
With the right company targeting the right twitterers, services like Be-A-Magpie has a good market as it evolves.