Comments on: What will your Twitter account be worth in 5 years or more?

By: Ross

Ross — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:02:13 +0000

I understand where you are going with this but twitter already has a clause that allows people with TMs or legit uses to have a twitter account if owned by another person. I am sure this will expand more when they see people selling twitter accounts. As Robb has said that selling twitter accounts is against the TOS. On top of that twitter will ban your ip address not just the account you are trying to use if you get banned BTW.

By: wannadevelop.com

wannadevelop.com — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:20:00 +0000

Twitter is still very immature.. I think there is some truth to your prediction, and you never know…but getting the followers in masses is tons of hard work.. A lot harder than most would think

By: robb

robb — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:55:13 +0000

I’m not sure how Twitter will play out, but even usernames without followers could still be valuable. Say, if you had username ‘NewYork’ with no followers, someone involved in New York tourism or media might be interested anyway. The importance of number of followers can be misleading, some follow others just to try to get more followers themselves, so like you say these followers have to be ‘targetted’ and interested to be of value. I’ve seen one guy offer to sell his twitter account on ebay, and another guy has had a few offers on a generic username, but that’s all so far. By the way, it is against twitter TOS to sell an account, but I’m sure it will happen anyway.