This is a really good post from PopEater about how celebrities are getting paid to tweet. I really enjoyed the post, it’s something that isn’t talked about much, but I think it should be addressed. Anyway, I liked it so much I thought I would repost it as is on my blog. I do some paid tweeting through SponsoredTweets. But mine are always disclosed, and I definitely don’t make $10,000 a tweet. Ad.ly is another good service for those of you looking to get paid to tweet. View the original post here.

Are celebs being paid to tweet about brands or services? Nicole Richie, Kim Kardashian, Whitney Port and Audrina Patridge can reportedly earn up to $10,000 per tweet for companies including Sony and Nestle. Say it ain’t so. OK! Magazine reports on the dark underbelly of the Twitterverse, and you may never look at social media the same again!

If all your friends told you that Avatar was the most amazing movie experience of their entire lives, wouldn’t you be likely to believe them? I mean, these are your friends after all. And at $1 billion (and counting), the film’s worldwide box office can’t be wrong. Word of mouth is arguably the greatest form of advertising, and businesses are keen on using the age old medium to their advantage via Twitter and celeb spokesperson-ship. Immoral? Maybe. Business saavy? Duh!

OK! Magazine reports: “Celebrities including Nicole Richie, Kim Kardashian, Whitney Port and Audrina Patridge can reportedly earn up to $10,000 per Tweet for companies including Sony and Nestle.”

Ad.ly, a company that connects Twitterers and advertisers, Kardashian and Soulja Boy earn that figure when they endorse products via Tweet, says E! Online. The biggest earners are Britney Spears and P. Diddy who could earn up to $20,000 per tweet. $20K. Per tweet. Let’s do some math using that hypothetical sum and factor in Twitter’s 140 character limit (carry the one)… that’s about $140 per letter, punctuation mark or even space. Sure, these celebs probably won’t be quitting their day jobs over it, but it’ll definitely pays some bills. Or maybe a set of shiny new cuff links in Diddy’s case.

However, E! Online says that a new regulation requiring celebs to disclose whether a blog post or social media post was driven by any kind of cash incentive could hamper the practice.

Kim Kardashian made headlines this week when she vehemently denied getting paid on her blog after endorsing a Carl’s Jr salad. “Am I not allowed to talk about something I like without people assuming I must have been paid to do it?” the New York Post quoted her as saying. “I want my fans to know what products, gadgets, foods, clothes and beauty products I like and I love sharing all that with my fans,” she added.