Twittad & Be-a-Magpie Review?

[beamagpie]

Hi everybody,

my name is Jan and I am the CEO of Magpie & Friends. I was made aware of this discussion by one of our users and I'd like to leave an official statement.

Our compliance team regularly checks our Twitterer's (and Advertiser's) accounts for violations of our terms and conditions and suspends accounts which are not compliant to protect our users from unfair behavior from others.

We've seen Twitterers who merely try to sign up a lot of Twitter accounts with Magpie, grow an unreasonable large follower base and then feed various RSS feeds through their timelines to maximize their earnings. Those accounts, once detected, are suspended and the Twitterer is warned via email. This email outlines the situation and asks the Twitterer to explain it. If we find that we were wrong, we re-activate the account. If after four weeks we haven't heard back from the Twitterer or the account is still violating our terms, we do shut them down and we do keep the money. You will find all ad networks having the same policy in those cases. We need to keep the money to:

1. Reimburse the advertiser. The accounts which are suspended for the abovementioned reasons rarely generate any clicks or conversions for our advertisers, because most of their followers are dead or fake accounts and because the ads could not be targeted due to the high amount of feeds.
2. Make a point that we're not tolerating this behavior. If we'd let the Twitterer have the money, he might just start over again with another Twitter account and do the same thing.

Having said that, I'd like to assure you that we do not make up reasons to terminate accounts in order to keep money which is not ours. Suspensions and terminations are only made in accordance with our terms and everyone has a 4 weeks notice. The Twitter Search problem that some are referring to is in fact an issue on Twitter's side. This can easily be verified by looking for one's twitter name on search.twitter.com.

If you'd like you can check out these blog posts from users who talk about their experiences with Magpie:

• blog.adam-jackson.net/2009/04/15/i-stand-behind-magpie-twitter-advertisements/
• jessicagottlieb.com/2009/03/why-i-magpie-tech-talk-tuesday/

You might also search Twitter for "I just received a payment for my latest Magpie-tweets" using this link:

search.twitter.com/search?q=i+just+received+a+payment+for+my+latest+magpie-tweets

We send a tweet like this whenever we issue a payment.


I hope to have clarified a few things in this post. I won't be able to monitor this forum thread for further posts as I don't usually frequent this web site. If you have questions regarding this, please do get in touch with us over Twitter by @replying or DMing us.

Thanks, best regards,

Jan Schulz-Hofen
CEO Magpie & Friends Ltd.

 

[Alex Brooks]

TwtAd, now RevTwt now does pay and if you have a number of accounts, in differnt niches with large amounts of followers, then you will be able to make some nice money with it although they hardly pay anything per anything per click anymore, but it's still a good way to earn a a bit of extra-cash if you have a number of twitter accounts for each blog/website you have.

 

[kallen]

So, basically what you are saying is, you don't want anyone to actually WORK at getting followers (aka targeted customers for you) and advertise to them, you only want to play with housewives and teenagers who will never reach the payout. Why do you care if someone has "an unreasonable amount of followers". You and your company are friggin stupid and I'm pulling all my accounts and will not do business with you or anyone else who basically is stealing money from people who are working their asses off to bring in customers. You sir, are a moron. God forbid anyone "try to sign up a lot of Twitter accounts with Magpie, grow an unreasonable large follower base and then feed various RSS feeds through their timelines to maximize their earnings" Thats friggin business you idiot! You think people should do what exactly? Fiddle around and not try to "maximize their earnings"

Thanks for clarifying what your business is all about, I suspect you will be out of business pretty soon if you don't try to "maximize YOUR earnings"

un-friggin-real! Hey everybody, I got an idea... lets all work all day long driving traffic to sombody elses sale pages and then just let this chic have all the money cuz she is too tight to flip any of us a lousy nickel!!

I just started working magpie & revtwt both, but like everyone else says above, don't waste your time, go promote clickbank, click2sell or CPA offers and make 10 times as much... These twitter ad places was simply convenient and easier to implement, but the ONLY way they would actually make you any dam money is to have "an unreasonable amount of followers" and multiple accounts... that is unless you are happy with working for a week just to pay for a Woper jr. (w/fries if you work weekends)

Hi everybody,

my name is Jan and I am the CEO of Magpie & Friends. I was made aware of this discussion by one of our users and I'd like to leave an official statement.

Our compliance team regularly checks our Twitterer's (and Advertiser's) accounts for violations of our terms and conditions and suspends accounts which are not compliant to protect our users from unfair behavior from others.

We've seen Twitterers who merely try to sign up a lot of Twitter accounts with Magpie, grow an unreasonable large follower base and then feed various RSS feeds through their timelines to maximize their earnings. Those accounts, once detected, are suspended and the Twitterer is warned via email. This email outlines the situation and asks the Twitterer to explain it. If we find that we were wrong, we re-activate the account. If after four weeks we haven't heard back from the Twitterer or the account is still violating our terms, we do shut them down and we do keep the money. You will find all ad networks having the same policy in those cases. We need to keep the money to:

1. Reimburse the advertiser. The accounts which are suspended for the abovementioned reasons rarely generate any clicks or conversions for our advertisers, because most of their followers are dead or fake accounts and because the ads could not be targeted due to the high amount of feeds.
2. Make a point that we're not tolerating this behavior. If we'd let the Twitterer have the money, he might just start over again with another Twitter account and do the same thing.

Having said that, I'd like to assure you that we do not make up reasons to terminate accounts in order to keep money which is not ours. Suspensions and terminations are only made in accordance with our terms and everyone has a 4 weeks notice. The Twitter Search problem that some are referring to is in fact an issue on Twitter's side. This can easily be verified by looking for one's twitter name on search.twitter.com.

If you'd like you can check out these blog posts from users who talk about their experiences with Magpie:

• blog.adam-jackson.net/2009/04/15/i-stand-behind-magpie-twitter-advertisements/
• jessicagottlieb.com/2009/03/why-i-magpie-tech-talk-tuesday/

You might also search Twitter for "I just received a payment for my latest Magpie-tweets" using this link:

search.twitter.com/search?q=i+just+received+a+payment+for+my+latest+magpie-tweets

We send a tweet like this whenever we issue a payment.


I hope to have clarified a few things in this post. I won't be able to monitor this forum thread for further posts as I don't usually frequent this web site. If you have questions regarding this, please do get in touch with us over Twitter by @replying or DMing us.

Thanks, best regards,

Jan Schulz-Hofen
CEO Magpie & Friends Ltd.

 

[kallen]

lol, went to magpie to close my account and here is what I got:

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

So... I guess I need to send an email to [email protected] ? What kinda fly-by-night outfit is this?

 

[Brassart]

I am afraid I must disagree with "Jan" and agree with most others here - Beamagpie appears to be a scam.
When I signed up, I had only a few followers, but it's been growing recently. Just coincidently as I have my biggest growth spurt yet of twitter followers, I get an email from Beamagpie telling me I've violated their TOS.

So basically, I was fine until there was the real threat that they would have to honor paying me.

BeAMagpie is a SCAM in my book. Stay away you'll only be dissappointed.

 

[beamagpie]

Dear Brassart,

please let us know your Twitter name and I'll check. Maybe this can serve as an example to help you and others understand why we suspend accounts.

Also, did you contact us at the email address provided in the warning email which you must have received? As stated in that email, if suspension happened in error, we will re-activate your account no questions asked.

Thanks, best regards,

Mike Schmitt
Customer Care
Magpie & Friends Ltd.