On November 4th, Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States of America.

And at least one person wanted me to let my network know that they were unhappy about it.

Let’s back up. During the election, 1,745,754 people set 4,896,031 statuses that reminded people to vote for either Barack Obama or John McCain.  Given that more than 90% of the people in my network had donated their statuses, I deemed this a good opportunity to buck the trend and set my own status to [STATUS FOR RENT].  the Michael Schneider is a charitable guy, but when it comes to my personal brand, I am a marketer and only willing to whore my status out to a candidate (or anyone else) if they are willing to trade goods, services or currency.

I set my rate to $200 for one hour or $1500 for 24 hours.  Once it became clear that Obama would be elected, one of the McCain supporters in my network told me that they wanted to rent my status and that they wanted me to set it to OBAMA BITES IT.

Given the cut rate negotiated (I wanted to be a pioneer!), I set the rule that I would be able to indicate that I had, indeed, rented my status in the message.

Has anyone else done this? How about being paid to tweet/plurk a message?