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The guy sold his Twitter background for $1 million

by James777 on Jun 18, 2011

A young man of 20 monetized his Twitter account in an unusual way. It was not just selling tweets. He put up his Twitter background for sale for $ 1 mil. A rather stupid and unrealizable idea turned out to be one of the most successful in the history of Twitter.
@fruitblob has told his friends about the idea and placed only one ad somewhere in the web. The result didn`t take long to appear. Seven months passed. Three large companies and one corporation contacted him in order to buy the place for advertising (the right to place their own background in his Twitter account), but they were late. A couple of days before, in June, 2011 the background was sold to some anonymous businessman who turned out to be a fan of Chelsea FC. Now one can observe 8 Chelsea badges on the background.
The guy earned $ 1 000 000 for the background (they say the money went to charity). He is now selling the link under his bio in Twitter. In fact, any link is more functional than a background....Read More >>