Cash For Tweets and Facebook Posts? Aussie Startup Pays You to Astroturf 156
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."
on a totally unrelated unbiased note (Score:5, Funny)
Social Loot has the best service to offer so far. We testet all the available options besides Social Loot and Social Loot is the winner for us. Social Loot.
In Britain... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This should be considered illegal (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In Britain... (Score:4, Funny)
In the US, we can call it 'Prostituting for Pennies'.