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No wonder Mesut Ozil is so happy (Picture: Getty Images)

Mesut Ozil is paid an astonishing £33,120 by Adidas every time he chooses to tweet about their latest product.

The Arsenal star commands the large sum per tweet due to his 9.89million Twitter following.

But the German is not alone in making insane amounts of dosh from pressing a few buttons on a computer.

In fact, Ozil is only the sixth highest paid sportsman per tweet.


Cristiano Ronaldo is paid a whopping £169,280 to tweet to his £37.7m followers to top the list.

Fellow Premier League stars Wayne Rooney, Radamel Falcao and Sergio Aguero are paid £44,620, £32,546 and £32,477 respectively.

It’s easy money! The players can just type a couple of lines and earn big dollar, like this:

Here’s the rest of the top ten:

Incredible amounts of money flying around (Graphic: Mail)

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