Review: Make Money on Twitter with Be-A-Magpie

Be-A-Magpie is a service that caused some waves when it launched, as spammy and selling out to your followers.

But there are ways for users to make money using twitter and not to annoy your readers with this service.

Some tips:

#1 – Make sure you set the number of ads to a low display frequency.

#2 – Don’t set auto approve ads.  Manually review all of the ads.

#2 – Only choose ads to your twitter profile that you might normally tweet about.

After personally trying out this service with my testing twitter account and earning around 50 Euros (not bad for only 2 paid tweets), the account was suspended due to suspicious activity.  When I contacted them to ask why, they stated it was because I was using multiple RSS feeds to populate my twitter account.  Even though I told them it was only a single RSS feed and that it only updates every 3 hours at most and has less than 300 total updates, they still said if I remove the RSS feed they would re-activate my account, otherwise I would forfeit any monies owed.  (I’ll pass on the $50 for now) But kudos to them for trying to keep a close eye on twitter accounts that appear to only be set up to pump out ads.

The biggest problem I currently see with this service is not the actual ads themselves, its the spam caused by all the affiliates trying to make money off referrals to be-a-magpie.  If you take a look at twitter search for the keyword,  you will see tonnes of users pumping out the affiliate link.  Be-A-Magpie needs to get this under control.  I personally complained to the CEO, Jan Schulz-Hofen about this, and he had this response:

“To address the affiliate tweets: we acknowledge that when doing a
Twitter search, it might seem a little too much. However, please
remember that Search is not the regular way, people are using Twitter.”

“Furthermore, we don’t require our users to set these promotional
tweets. They choose to, because they like the whopping 30% commission
we grant the Twitterer for every payment a referred customer makes in
his first year of usage.”

“However, we do monitor the feedback on promotional tweets and other
topics closely. We spend a good deal of time listening to our users
and evolving.”

Another minor annoyance is the price listed in Euros.  The bulk of the twitter users are still located in US and the US dollar is more widely used and recognized by online marketers. Jan mentioned that they will be introducing the US dollar version soon.

I believe there is a market for this type of service if the right company was targeting the correct twitter users, and I will be sure to keep an eye on this service as it evolves.

Go ahead, sign up for Be-A-Magpie

~ Chad AKA Protwit