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Money for tweets scandal
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Money for tweets scandal
Here it has come come to light that some companies and organisations are paying celebrities for tweets endorsing their product(s)

Here SA Tourism paid a celebrity chef a measly $900 to endorse Kangaroo Island.

Unfortunately for them, the punters found out---the tweet generated 3 MILLION negative comments!

Plus, not stating such endorsements are paid is illegal here under our consumer protection laws.

The practice is apparently also common in the US.


My position;if you are stupid enough to follow the tweets of some celebrity, you are fair game.
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Money for tweets scandal - by padraic - April 28, 2012 at 12:37 am
RE: Money for tweets scandal - by Tiberius - April 28, 2012 at 7:01 am

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