Skypephone S2 now available
August 19, 2008
The Skypephone S2 is now available for purchase from the 3 Store. It’s sleeker, shinier and all round better with a bigger screen and higher resolution camera. It also has the all important modem drivers built in to turn the Skypephone into a 3G broadband modem for your laptop.
Pricing is £69.99 on PAYG or free on a contract and a minimum spend of £10 a month gets you access to Skype for free.
For all those mourning the loss of SMS Twitter messages you’ll be pleased to know you get up to 10,000 free Skype chats and using a service such as twitterforskype or Twitt’d will hook you back up to Twitter. The Skype chats and any Skype calls you make are free.
I’m still waiting for the new Skypephone to arrive, but if you’ve already got one let us know what you think of it compared to the original.
Twitter account sponsorship sold for $1k on eBay
June 8, 2008
One month’s sponsorship of a Twitter account with 500 followers has sold on eBay for just over $1082.01. The lucky winner will get the background of Ian Schafer’s Twitter page and his avatar replaced with the images of their choice. At time of writing, the account has 503 followers; more than $2 a follower does seem rather expensive, especially when there is no guarantee that any of them actually visit Twitter to see Ian’s updates.
Still, if anyone wishes to sponsor TameBay’s Twitter feed, please get in touch! And here’s some help for those wondering exactly what is Twitter.
Twitterer sells out friends
April 13, 2008
In what may be a first a Twitter account has been put up for sale on eBay. Andrew Baron has 1400 people following his tweets and is selling them to the highest bidder, 99p no reserve with the current high bid at $455.00
He’s offering what he describes as “an account with a pre-installed audience”, although he does point out that all his followers could jump ship the moment someone else buys the account.
The big question raised is is it worth buying friends / followers / readers from a social networking site? It’s very easy for people to unsubscribe so the value could be transient to say the least. What isn’t being offered is a hand over period where the new owner twitters concurrently with the old tweeter.
If you were a subscriber how would you feel about being sold to the highest bidder?
Via TechCrunch
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