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Kim Kardashian Gets $10K Per Tweet

by Amar Toor on December 30, 2009 at 02:25 PM

For the most part, 'Keeping up with the Kardashians' doesn't involve too much thought. Sure, you have to remember which girl's dating the football player, which one's having a baby with a basketball player, which one's doing neither. But other than that, the most brain-intensive activity you'll have to endure is guesstimating how much Dr. 90210 charged for Bruce Jenner's Saran-wrapped face. But, surprisingly enough, keeping up with one Kardashian in particular can be pretty complex -- and pretty expensive.

According to the Examiner, Kim Kardashian (the one with the football player) gets paid $10,000 for each tweet she posts on behalf of advertisers. That's $10,000. Per. Tweet. Or, if the advertiser's getting their full 140-character's worth, that's just over $70 per character. According to a rep from Ad.ly, though, advertisers limit Kardashian's paid Twitticisms to once per day. While this wave of commissioned celebrity and non-celebrity tweeters is nothing new, the scale of Kardashian's payday staggered many, and elicited a shower of angry or befuddled tweets (our fave: "@benzojones, "Kim Kardashian Gets Paid $10,000 Per Tweet... My booties big! My Tweets should at least be worth $150!").

Just to put things in perspective, Kardashian's biffie, Reggie Bush, made a handsome $2.6 million last year while playing for the New Orleans Saints and getting hit by 400 pound linemen. Kardashian could make that with just 260 tweets -- or, if she's really feeling saucy, by tweeting "Ray J" about 7200 times. [From: Examiner]

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