On April 24th, I posted that www.tweetvalue.com had appraised my Twitter profile as being worth a whopping $3. OK, that was sarcastic, I will admit it. Since then, however, I have actually found myself getting more interested in Twitter (maybe because it suddenly seems absolutely everyone in the world is getting more interested in it not just web geeks).

So, I spent about 20 minutes picking some people to follow. If you read this blog (and you actually exist) you probably already follow them to: Matt Cutts, Danny Sullivan, The Onion, and the like. Turns out these guys tweet quite a bit. And, as they are interesting figures in my industry, I actually enjoy reading some of what they write.

But, an interesting thing happened. When I started following them, it meant more people found me and decided to follow me, too. Some of them are clearly total BS and probably purely setup for some kind of spyware or phishing scam. But, some are obviously real people. What pressure? I suddenly have a bigger audience on Twitter than I have here (not that either are big).

And, as if to justify the massive effort, tweetvalue has now upped their estimate of my worth to $17. I figure if I keep my ramp rate at this level, my profile will be worth $100 in 30 days. That’s remarkable (some sarcasm, still, sorry). Nevertheless, it is something fun to shoot for— I haven’t had a fun project like this since I obsessed with ranking for ‘Bacon Polenta’ (which I did).

So, here we go– I am even putting the counter on my sidebar so you can see where I stand. If you don’t follow me on Twitter already, now is the time to start. You will get next to nothing in return (aside from the occasional witty comment), but will be helping me on my path to great wealth (last bit of sarcasm, I promise).