Social Networking's New Gimmick: Get Paid For Posts


BANGALORE: Social networking sites let you share almost everything on their site, and now allow you to even post texts that can get you paid for it. Two services Bubblews and Bonzo Me pay for the posts that attract advertisers and traffic, reports Times of India.

"I just feel like everyone on social networks has been taken advantage of for long enough," said Michael Nusbaum, a Morristown, New Jersey surgeon who created Bonzo Me. "Facebook has been making a ton of money, and the people providing the content aren't getting anything."

Apparently, the Bonzo Me pays up to 80 percent of their ad revenue for the best posts. The Bubblews payment scheme is different, where it pays for the number of times each post is clicked or changes the activities on the networking site like triggering lot likes on it or getting famous on the internet.

"No one should come to our site in anticipation of being able to quit their day job," Bubblews CEO Arvind Dixit said. "But we are trying to be fair with our users. Social networks don't have to be places where you feel like you're being exploited." 

Facebook and twitter have become very powerful social networking that celebrities who have huge followers are being paid by advertisers to promote their products on their accounts on the site.

Supposedly, Bonzo Me began in 2012 and had close to 200,000 followers on its ‘Beta’ stage and with just few thousand users since the release of its apps for Smartphones the service has paid close to $30,000 in ad revenue for its users.

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