There “could” in fact be considered value there. Basically, if you have 3,000 people following you, it would be assumed that those followers are part of your target market. If someone else were to assume your Twitter account, who was also in the know with the field, and could continue it along a parallel path, that person would immediately have those eyes available to channel into a website or blog. So, I can see the point here. The problem is the valuation is bunk. There is no yard stick to measure by to assume its value. It would be worth what it could be sold for – there is no way to know what it could be sold for, unless you tried to sell it. If this sort of thing becomes popular, then the trend would begin to create a yardstick for future sales.

I think the value is a garbage number. But the curiosity of what the Twit is valued at did exactly what they wanted it to do: Get us to talk about it and get us to visit

I wonder how long before people start trading Twitter accounts on ebay?

As you say “If that account is sold, it would not retain the value.”

I reckon there is someone somewhere shrewd enough to sell it, as well as someone somewhere dumb enough to buy it.

Already twitter accounts are being offered for sale. Not so much because of the amount of followers, but because of the name of the account. The same as with www domain names. See for instance http://twitter.com/yellowpages , but there are many of them.

Twitter can be a valuable source of traffic and a great way to meet people interested in the same things as you – it stands to reason that this value has a monetary equivalent but as others have said its not realistically going to be realised unless you sell your website / business along with the twitter profile.

All the same its a bit of fun!

I think that this is actually as disturbing as hearing someone use “your net worth is ___$” in a sentence. I agree that it is weird, however society (especially in capitalist nations) has tended to try to create a way to “quantify” the value of people in monetary terms.

I’m not saying that you shouldn’t be able to somehow cash in with tweeter, but I think that can already be done by using it as a vehicle to raise awareness of exactly what it is you do (ie. blog, sell cars, etc.), and market yourself accordingly.

The 2 big questions though are:

1) do you think your tweeter account, and all the networking it has helped you do, helped you make more or less than $602?

2) Would you sell your tweeter account, if the money were right?

Just another opportunity for people to stroke their ego.

Interesting application. Why to use this? Just for fun!

I guess there’s a market for Twitter accounts.

So one of these sites valued my Twitter account at $2000 give or take a bit. I have to say I believe its value as a business tool far exceeds this. I now have 6500 plus followers and growing every day. I try to produce relevant content and still find it ok to repost many of the same things regularly as well. I would value my Twitter following somewhere around $15,000 to $30,000 based on how I have been able to leverage it.

I would say that in direct sales twitter has most definitely gained my business nearly $10,000 in direct quantifiable sales in the last year. Now that number cold be dramatically higher if you include the fact that most of my clients share our business through referrals and word of mouth. I think if you can produce relevant content in your field and are willing to keep at it, Twitter is a vehicle that can drive brand awareness and increase sales. The only caveat to this is that you need to be able to produce relevant content that people will want to look at. And you have to be willing to have a long sales cycle as you are not there to sell directly, but to provide tools and expertise that will help create buzz and brand positioning as an expert in a field.