Flippa Blog « social media

The blogosphere went wild in early October this year when Rahul Jain listed Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook predecessor FaceMash.com on the Flippa marketplace. Last week was a case of history repeating when the likes of Forbes, Mashable, Yahoo News, IT World and the LA Times all ran with the news that the site had successfully sold [...]

Many established websites have social media profiles associated with them such as Facebook pages, Twitter and YouTube accounts. Most social media services’ terms of service state that you can’t register and sell profiles purely for the sake of selling profiles. Selling profiles as part of a business, however, appears to be acceptable in most cases. [...]