BuyYourTweet Wants to Sell You A Tweet

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Stranger things have happened but with just 32 followers, BuyYouTweet, a “viral experiment” that sells tweets to advertisers on eBay, seems like a non-starter.

So far the auction, placed by Ben Cooper, sold its first tweet for $3,24. That’s not exactly a business model but, as we said, stranger things have happened like, oh, say, cartoon bubbles being labeled rapists.

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