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Top 5 Highest Paid Tweeters Among Professional Athletes

What if I told you that someone is making around $140,000 per tweet they send out?

Compare that amount to the $0.00 you make every time you tweet; sounds like a pretty good gig right?

As you know, professional athletes are paid to endorse everything imaginable.

They can endorse products through commercials, billboards, heck, even tweets.

Opendorse, a company which analyzes statistics on the amount of money professional athletes make for social media campaigns, came out with a list of the professional athletes who make the most money per endorsement tweet.

You can probably figure out who number one is before seeing the list, but here are the top 5 on the list.

1. LeBron James- $139,474

2. Kevin Durant- $66,553

3. Kobe Bryant- $42,389

4. Floyd Mayweather- $34,924

5. Dwight Howard- $34,290

(List provided by Opendorse and ESPN)

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