Cristiano Ronaldo's Tweets Are Worth More Than LeBron James' Tweets

According to Complex Magazine, LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers has more than 23 million Twitter followers and a sponsored tweet from LeBron is worth more than $139,000. But Cristiano Ronaldo, the Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Real Madrid along with the Portugal national team, has over 37.7 million Twitter followers and makes about $250,000 for his sponsored tweets.

By "sponsored tweets" we mean tweets where an athlete promotes a product, and is getting paid a whole lot of money for writing something under 140 characters.

Other athletes who are considered to be some of the world's biggest sponsors include Wayne Rooney, Rafael Nadal and Neymar.

Here's DailyMail's Top 10 Most Valuable Sports Stars on Twitter list:

1. Cristiano Ronaldo
2. LeBron James
3. Neymar
4. Wayne Rooney
5. Kevin Durant
6. Mesut Ozil
7. Radamel Falcao
8. Sergio Aguero
9. Rafael Nadal
10. James Rodriguez

What we find so astonishing is the fact that there are only two American athletes on that list! LeBron James (of course) and Kevin Durant.

According to the DailyMail, Ronaldo has the 13^th highest most followers but is overshadowed by Katy Perry, Justin Bieber and President Barack Obama.

Basically, this means that if any of those 10 athletes were to tweet anything about a product brand, or even a photo of himself or herself sporting a brand, they'd earn anywhere from $45,000 to $250,000 with just one tweet. So, not only do these athletes make money by playing a sport, they make just as much by tweeting! That's more money than any of us could ever imagine.

Here are a few sponsored tweets by Cristiano Ronaldo and LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers:

LeBron James retweeted a tweet by @SoleCollector of a Nike product:

Nike and @kingjames support the Kay Yow Cancer Fund with a new Soldier 9: https://t.co/3A4QBq95ue pic.twitter.com/mRKy81hezU

— SoleCollector.com (@SoleCollector) August 1, 2015

Here's a tweet from Cristiano Ronaldo sponsoring a button down shirt from CR7Shirts.com:

One of my favourite #CR7Shirts for Autumn/Winter. Check out https://t.co/RwbrAO7iK5 to see all of our new styles! pic.twitter.com/hRVfMbN5qm — Cristiano Ronaldo (@Cristiano) September 1, 2015

Now you do the math -- how much do you think these two made per letter?