How Much Twitter Would Owe You If They Were Paying
- 11 years ago
Twitter’s wildly successful IPO has them valued at almost 25 billion dollars, leaving many users wondering how much of that fortune their tweets helped build. Well, TIME.com has developed a handy calculator that figures out how big a piece of the pie individual users would have coming to them - if Twitter was actually paying.
Twitter’s wildly successful IPO has them valued at almost 25 billion dollars, leaving many users wondering how much of that fortune their tweets helped build.
Well, TIME.com has developed a handy calculator that figures out how big a piece of the pie individual users would have coming to them - if Twitter was actually paying.
All you need to do is type in a user name – yours or anybody else’s.
The calculator assigns a value of roughly 12 and a-half cents per view. That’s based on the total company value divided by the number of tweets they say are actually read each day – 200 billion.
The calculator then gathers information on the tweeters posting habits and audience size.
It should be noted that as an estimated 75 percent of tweets are ignored, that’s factored in, so one’s take may not be as lush as hoped.
For comparison – and to help set realistic expectations prior to plugging in a personal user name – President Barack Obama is valued at over 5 million dollars.
Twitter-addicted Justin Beiber, who has one of the social network’s biggest followings, is worth almost 21 million.
Twitter’s wildly successful IPO has them valued at almost 25 billion dollars, leaving many users wondering how much of that fortune their tweets helped build.
Well, TIME.com has developed a handy calculator that figures out how big a piece of the pie individual users would have coming to them - if Twitter was actually paying.
All you need to do is type in a user name – yours or anybody else’s.
The calculator assigns a value of roughly 12 and a-half cents per view. That’s based on the total company value divided by the number of tweets they say are actually read each day – 200 billion.
The calculator then gathers information on the tweeters posting habits and audience size.
It should be noted that as an estimated 75 percent of tweets are ignored, that’s factored in, so one’s take may not be as lush as hoped.
For comparison – and to help set realistic expectations prior to plugging in a personal user name – President Barack Obama is valued at over 5 million dollars.
Twitter-addicted Justin Beiber, who has one of the social network’s biggest followings, is worth almost 21 million.