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Cash For Tweets and Facebook Posts? Aussie Startup Pays You to Astroturf
An anonymous reader writes "While the celebs are already charging big money for their Tweets, an Aussie startup is ranking everyday people and turning them into product salespeople. After a successful start Down Under they have now hit Silicon Valley, but will Americans embrace selling to their friends?"
From the article: "In a nutshell, individuals sign up to the Social Loot website and are assigned companies to promote to their circle of online friends. They are then paid on a sliding scale based on the amount of traffic their posts generate, and the quality of referrals and number of resulting sales. This is tracked by a code embedded in the links promoted by Social Loot’s spruikers."
rah rah something about sheeple and advertising and social media and blah blah knew it was just people....blah just don't use the services blah blah capitalism is it........blah slashdot groupthink..... blah blah bullshit ads blah just unfriend/unfollow them rah de blah blah....advertiser hijinks....
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