Friday, 13 February 2015

How a 23-year-old makes $500,000 a year tweeting random facts




When Kris Sanchez joined Twitter in 2009, he didn't expect much to come of it.
"I really started my Twitter account because I wanted to follow Britney Spears," Sanchez told Business Insider. "I'm a huge fan."He found he didn't have much to tweet about in his daily life, so he started sharing random facts he found while procrastinating on the internet.
He obviously had a knack for it.
"By 2011, I had decided to start tweeting 24/7. So that's a fact every 15 minutes," he said.
And thus, UberFacts was born.
In 2012, he hit 200,000 followers, including some big names, like Paris Hilton and Khloe Kardashian. Not much later, an ad network reached out.
"They helped me see how I could actually make money off of UberFacts, by building galleries and tweeting links," Sanchez said. "I was getting checks of $600 or $800 a week, and I couldn't believe it."
Today, Sanchez's Twitter account has an astounding 9.4 million followers. The Facebook page has more than 1.27 million likes, and the Instagram account has more than 468,000 followers.
He makes about $500,000 a year on UberFacts.
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