Thank you for your comment. Ted did give me credit on sponsoredtweets.com to try out the site.

I am trying the service out strictly to test how effective it is, and to determine if there is in fact an honest, legitimate way to use it. As you can probably tell from the comments here, I am trying to keep an open mind about the possibility of legitimate sponsored tweets.

I will be posting about my experience with the site, and my thoughts after trying it out.

The opportunity I posted on the site with the credit that Ted gave me, was “Tweet your honest opinion of DavidSpinks.com”.

I think the issue with the tweet that linked you here, was that it didn’t state that it was sponsored, now that I look at it. I think that means that the tweeter will not be paid for that sponsored tweet…which is why I approved it anyway, to see how they would react to a tweet that didn’t add the disclosure.

I think that the person that linked you here, is not using the service correctly, and the natural response that you showed, by unfollowing her, might be the way this type of service ultimately reaches an point where it’s reducing spam. (unfollowing them means they’ll start to do it less times, and with more quality)

Interesting to hear a real reaction to a real sponsored tweet, and I think it’s something that can be expected of many others. Out of curiosity, what do you think of this tweet: http://twitter.com/magical_trevor/status/3178810454

David

I realized that the link I followed was a sponsored tweet– which really aggravates me. Did you actually pay to have this post sponsored or did Ted shell out the money so you could try his service?

Not only was the link to this post sponsored , but this particular person sent three sponsored tweets in less than a hour, which is not the slightest bit valuable to me. I have no idea if she’ll send more today because I’ve since unfollowed her.

I didn’t unfollow her because of the sponsored tweets per se, but because I was irritated that 1.) this post was linked in a sponsored tweet and 2.) obviously this person is going to be doing this a lot.

Well, you’ve got your results, but I’m sorry to say that my initial impression of this post was soured because it wasn’t recommended honestly. I thought the person who sent the tweet thought it was something I should read, but I find that you’ve paid (or were offered) to have this tweeted. You say that you don’t think sponsored tweets won’t work, but you use the service to get traffic to this post. I find that incredibly dishonest.