Friday funny: http://tweetvalue.com/

This site says that my own Twitter profile is worth…. drumroll please… 3 whole dollars.

That’s great, now if I just create 333,333,334 more free profiles I can sell them all and retire.  To who?  Uh, well I guess I’ll have to believe the tweetvalue folks that there’s some sort of market out there for $3 Twitter profiles.  Of course, things are only valuable if there is a demand.  I have a little bit of a hard time believing that there is any demand for my profile with all 13 followers.  I have a lot more friends on Facebook and LinkedIn, are those worth hundreds?  

Come on now, social networking is great… but social networking profiles themselves have absolutely no inherent value.  The only value are the pages that get more traffic as a result of them.  And, if you actually did manage to sell one of these Twitter profiles that would never transfer.  So, congrats to the folks at tweetvalue for a clever domain name and a shot at the gold.  But, this time I think you’ve missed the mark.