7 Legit Ways To Make Money On Twitter

It’s no secret, everyone loves money and with Twitter’s huge growth, everyone is trying to profit off of it. Plus, the fact that we’re in a recession makes people even more eager to find legitimate ways to monetize their Twitter stream. Here are 6 great sites that can help you make some extra money on Twitter and all without spending a dime.

Twittad

Covered on Blogging Tips before, Twittad is a way to monetize your Twitter background. Here, you are basically selling your profile background to advertisers. There are 2 ways to monetize your profile — either by posting your Twitter account for advertisers to find you or by searching for advertisers yourself.

Be A Magpie

Has also been covered here on Blogging Tips before and caused quite a stir when it first hit the scene. With Be A Magpie, you send out sponsored tweets. Many think of it as spamming your Twitter followers. I personally feel that as long as you are choosing (since you can pick and choose) tweets that cater to and are useful to your Twitter followers, then it’s doable. Most of their campaigns are on a pay-per-click system so no clicks from your followers = no money.

TweetROI

Here’s another service where you send out sponsored tweets except with TweetROI you don’t need to get clicks from your followers to make money. Simply sending a tweet will make you money and you can even see up front how much you’ll get from that tweet. What’s even nicer is that TweetROI allows you to schedule tweets, so you don’t have to  log in  everyday and your Twitter stream won’t seem so obviously automated.

Tweetbucks

This is a URL shortener that allows you to make money by sharing links on Twitter. In order to make money on Tweetbucks you will need to enable the optional ad frame aka branding frame on your links. What’s nice about this “frame” is that you can add your own image URL for personal branding purposes. Whenever someone clicks on your link, they will see that image in the header of the window and you will make money.

RevTwt

Very similar to Be A Magpie, RevTwt gives you links to post in your tweets and you make money when someone clicks on them. Just be careful because for a lot of the tweets, only clicks from people in certain countries will make you money. They also just recently added a URL shortening feature very similar to Tweetbuck. Shorten a link, share it,  ads will be placed in the header and you make money.

TwitPub

This is definitely an interesting concept, with TwitPub you can charge users to subscribe to your tweets. You will need to set your account to private and then TwitPub will automate the subscription process from there. You can set the price that you’d like to charge each subscriber and you get paid 80% of that. This, of course, will only work if you have tweets worth paying for.

Affiliate Marketing

There are thousands of affiliate programs on the Web — pick a few and go for it. Remember, you don’t want to flood your Twitter stream with advertisements and affiliate links; they should be mixed in with your regular social interaction. Using affiliate links in conjunction with tools for scheduling your tweets can also be a great time-saver. Problogger has some excellent tips for those interested in affiliate marketing on Twitter.

Sites You Should Use With Caution

Here are some sites links that are thrown around all the time and will cost you some money. Most of them either include information that is freely available for you on hundreds of blogs and websites or software that will probably get your account deleted for spamming. So, be sure to use these at your own risk.

Some of these sites also sneak in extra fees in the fine print — which most people usually miss. Before you pay for anything like these, be sure to Google the name of the site along with the word “scam” and see what comes up. In general, it’s always just a good idea to research anything before spending money on it. A lot of things that sound too good to be true, really are just that.

• The Tweet Tank – Costs $77
• The Twitter Traffic Machine – Costs $27
• Twitter Online System – Costs $37 then $9.95 Monthly
• Twitter Cash Formula – Costs $27.97
• Turbo Cash Generator – Costs $67.97
• Twitter Affiliate Cash – Costs $27
• My Search Cash – Costs $1.97 for 7 Day Trial then $49.95 Monthly plus $32.90 worth of hidden fees
• Tweet For Cash – Costs $2.97 for 7 Day Trial then $89.90 Monthly
• Twitter Cash Kit – Costs $3.88 for 7 Day Trial then $49.87 Monthly
• Twitter Cash – Costs $2.29 then $39.95 Monthly plus $17.90 worth of hidden fees
• Tweet Tornado – Free for 24 hours then $99.99 Monthly

Are there any other ways that you know of to make money on Twitter?

Are there any other sites that our readers should be cautious of?

Please be sure to let us know in the comments!

Written by Charnita Fance from mrsfance
Posted on July 25th, 2009 and filed under Making Money
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