Make Money Tweeting The Pro Way
If you’ve been here before, I wrote an awesome post before comparing all the Twitter Advertising networks. Here’s a few tips on how you can earn even more with these networks. I have personally received over $1200 from these networks, so I can assure you that these aren’t scams.
1. Gotta join ‘em all!
That’s right. I suggest that you should sign up for all 13 of the networks, even if you don’t consider tweeting ads from all of them. Why? Sometimes, great opportunities are usually only available from an advertiser to one network only. If you can’t be bothered to sign up for all of them, just sign up for Ad.ly, Sponsored Tweets & MyLikes. These are the top networks.
2. Fill her up!
When joining these networks, make sure you fully enter in all your profile details, especially when choosing your Categories in MyLikes and Ad.ly, and entering the tags in Sponsored Tweets. This is important as many advertisers look for tweeters by searching for keywords and categories.
Applicable to: All
3. Sound like yourself!
“Yo homies check out this rad app!” might not get you many clicks if you usually tweet in a formal tone & manner. Only some networks allow you to customize the message before posting it. Also you can encourage more clicks by using vocabulary such as “Click here:” or “Check it out:” before the link.
Applicable to: Sponsored Tweets, MyLikes
4. Keep it in the family!
Keep the ads related to your account CPC. When creating accounts, keep different accounts focused on one central topic. For example, an account called @realabsfitness will generally be about fitness and exercise, and not the latest iPods. This way, you’ll get more targeted ads and therefore, more clicks.
Applicable to: All
5. We no speak Americano!
The majority of twitter users are from the United States. Unsurprisingly, most ads target and cater to users in the U.S. You can check where the majority of your followers are located using Ad.ly Analytics‘ Location Overlay map. If the majority of your followers are from the United States, that’s great. If not, you should check on indivdual offers as some offers may only count clicks from United States.
Applicable to: Sponsored Tweets, MyLikes
6. Pick the ads with the highest CPC rate
This is obvious. You should always pick the adverts with the highest Cost Per Click (CPC) rate. For example, I get paid up to $0. 48 per click on MyLikes because I choose the right advertisers. You can do the same. With 2 clicks from my followers, I can already buy a burger from McDonald’s.
Applicable to: Sponsored Tweets, MyLikes
7. Check your email often!
Ad.ly and MyLikes will notify you of new opportunites via email. For Ad.ly, these are often time limited to 24 hours. So stick close to your phone or computer! You could be missing out on opportunities!
Applicable to: Ad.ly, MyLikes
8. Accept all (cost per tweet) offers
I’ve received offers ranging from $20 to $300 per tweet. I’ve accepted all of them. This only applies to Cost Per Tweet ads (Ad.ly, Sponsored Tweets) as you typically earn more than Cost Per Click ads (MyLikes).
Applicable to: Sponsored Tweets, Ad.ly
9. What time is it?
If possble, try to tweet at 1PM Eastern Standard Time, or at least within 11AM to 3PM EST. According to Sysmos, this is when the most Twitter activity happens during the day. You can get more clicks when there are more people on twitter at one time. Only MyLikes allows you to specific what time to post the ads.
Twitter is most active on Tuesdays & Wednesdays, and the least active on on the weekends. If every tweets while at work, I wonder if the productivity level has decreased 
Applicable to: MyLikes
10. Multiple accounts
If you’re planning to have multiple accounts to tweet more ads, make sure you differentiate into different topics to maximize your earnings. Don’t just have 10 different accounts about Apple, and remember, don’t spam.
Applicable to: All
11. Repeition is the key to success
In Sponsored Tweets, you should enable ClickWatch to maximise the number of clicks. ClickWatch enables under performing ads to be retweeted up to a maximum of three times. Also, with MyLikes, You can schedule your ads to appear at a certain time and date with a third-party service. By repeating your ad, you can receive more clicks, and therefore bigger earnings. I personally use Twaitter, but their are other services.
Applicable to: MyLikes, Sponsored Tweets
12. Finally,
Go Above and Beyond Twitter!
Above and Beyond’s music is awesome. Anyways, back to the point. Ad.ly allows you to tweet ads to your MySpace account too, while MyLikes allows you to post your ads to Twitter, Facebook profile, Facebook Fan Page, YouTube, Blogger, WordPress, Friendfeed, Tumblr and more. Personally, I only tweet ads on Twitter and no where else. Why? Because I don’t like trying to make money off my friends. But if you have a large audience on your Blogger blog, this could be a huge earner.
I like to compare followers/fans/friends as Tensile strength of a structure. Why? If you post too many ads, your followers will reach what I like to compare to the Ultimate Tensile Strength before reaching the Fracture Point. There is a certain balance to between your tweets and ads. If you post too many ads, your followers will stand it up to a certain point (the Ultimate Tensile Strength) until they decide to unfollow / block you (the so-called Fracture Point). So, don’t over-post ads!
If you follow all these steps, you can easily earn $20-$250 a month.
Any problems? Leave a comment below and I’ll personally email/reply you back.
11 Ways to Maximise Traffic From Twitter
Josh here: I’m done with high school forever, and I have 5 months off till uni. I’m now going to try to blog at least once a week. Cheers and enjoy the post .
There are two parts to maximizing traffic from twitter – first, you’ll need a boatload of followers (preferably a boatload of pirates from Somalia 
) and to format you tweet correctly to allow the most number of clicks from your followers.
So firstly, you’ll need a crane load of followers. But how do you do that?
Your Twitter Profile
1. Have a twitter Profile Picture – Hopefully a picture of your face, or a personal branding/logo. Research shows that a person with a picture has 10 times more followers than one without. But never, never have a picture of a half-naked girl. Not only are you offended the ladies, but you already lost half off your potential readers as only men are more likely to click on your tweets. (Lame, but too true). Having a picture of a half-naked picture only makes you look more like a spammer too.
2. Fill In Your Bio – with something relevant and interesting. Not just “Student”, or “Porn Director” – be descriptive, and mostly, be brief. You only have 160 characters so you’ll have to be creative. Remember, D0n’7 wr173 1n søm3 fαñcy ʎɐʍ that you find artsy – remember, you are targeting other people to follow you, and they may not be able to read your bio.
3. Don’t spam, especially spamming #trendingtopics hashtags with unrelated items – it can also get you banned – careful there.
4. Follow others! That’s right. This has to be the most effective way to meet new people (and sneakily get new followers as they follow you back). But to be honest, I’ve met some really interesting and great people by following and chatting with them. If I didn’t follow them in the first place, I’ve have never knew what I missed out.
5. You should tweet things that are generally around one central topic. For example, an account called @livetechnews should be tweeting about, well tech news and gadgets and not oral health. Also, never ever tweet about everything you are doing right now. No one cares if you just ate a ham sandwich for lunch. Tweet about things that are interesting. I totally fail at this rule, I tweet about anything & everything
6. @reply people when they talk to you. Don’t just ignore people (unless they are spammers of course, which you should promptly block and report them for spam). This may not seem like an obvious way to get more clicks, but interacting with people allows you to keep your Twitter account active. Yes, having loads of followers is good, but having a load of spam/bot followers isn’t, and won’t get you much traffic to your site.
The Tweet itself
Obviously, you are trying get the maximum traffic from twitter to your site/blog, so you’ll need to format your tweet correctly to get the maximum traffic too! Here’s how you do that:
7. Keep the tweet simple. For a blog post, the simpliest format (and the format you should use) is “[BlogPostTitle] [ShortenedLink]” – Remember the K-I-S-S philosophy – Keep It Simple Stupid. The more complex your tweet is, the harder it is for your followers to understand what you’re trying to convey.
Keep It Simple Stupid!
8. Never have an @username, hyperlink, and a hashtag in a single tweet. For example, my tweet is “@Apple launched a new Macbook http://bit.ly/link #mac #apple #macbook”. Having any of these three things make Twitter create a “link”, with shows as a different color. Your follower could get distracted on the hashtag. Then they check out @Apple. And then they totally forget about the link. Look how this looks as a tweet:
Too complicated & distracting!
Much Better!
9. Place the most important keywords at the beginning and the end of the tweet. Remember the Google Heat Map? Your most important information should be on your top left, or in the case of a tweet, the first few (and last) characters of a tweet. Confused? Here’s what I mean:
Yes, you may need to restructure your sentence to get to most clicks to your link.
10. Never ever post a full link to your blog post. eg. http://joshlam.com/2009/09/comparsion-the-13-twitter-advertising-networks/, but instead have a shortened link like http://bit.ly/3g2yd1 it’ll make your tweets look neater, and your followers will focus more on your actual blog title, rather than the long link. Also, remember, you’re limited to 140 characters - shortening links saves space too.
11. Use established URL shorteners. Try not to use some unknown URL shortener. Here’s a list of the most trustworthy (and most popular) URL shorteners: -I would generally stick to the top two shorteners.
goo.gl (Google’s own one, you’ll need to install their toolbar)
Bonus
Here’s two awesome tricks with j.mp and bit.ly – they are the same company, thus, their links are interchangeable. For example, this bit.ly link: http://bit.ly/3g2yd1 redirects to the same site as http://j.mp/3g2yd1
You can add a “+” sign to the end of any j.mp/bit.ly link to check its stats. For example, the stats for the above link, http://bit.ly/3g2yd1, is located at http://bit.ly/3g2yd1+ – this will allow you to check on your own stats, as well as the ability to spy on your competitor’s click-thru stats by adding a “+” to their link. Cool innit?
Sorry for all you “twitter gurus” out there reading this, this guide is really for marketing beginners to Twitter. I was blogging about way to advanced stuff before (according to the comments), so I hope this helps!
Review: MyLikes, Scam Or Twitter Money Maker?
MyLikes is a brand new Twitter Advertising Network. Again, with all advertising networks, some tend to be scams.
Here’s a quick overview of MyLikes:
MyLikes makes it extremely easy for you to earn money from Twitter ads, regardless of how big or small your number of followers figure is. I understand that the other networks that I have introduced in the past may be more suited to people with large number of followers (e.g. Sponsored Tweets, ad.ly) where they pay you per tweet. With MyLikes (like RevTwt), they pay you per click. And it’s not just $0.001 per click or something ridiculously low. They pay a whopping $0.5 a click. Two clicks could buy you a McDonald’s burger already.
Here’s something about MyLikes that’s also unheard of in the Twitter Advertising Industry: A $2 minimum payout. Some networks have higher payout rates, which means smaller publishers may have to wait a long time before being able to cash out. That’s not the case with MyLikes.
How do I know it’s not another scam? Well here’s why:
1. I have personally received payment from MyLikes. Here’s a screenshot of my PayPal payments from MyLikes:
So far I have made $165.97 just from MyLikes ads, from my followers clicking on the links.
This Is NOT a scam.
2. The company MyLikes is actually founded by two ex-Googlers, the former tech lead for AdSense, Arvind Sundararajan and his wife Bindu Reddy, the former head of product management for Google Apps. That’s right. I told you their names. You could knock on their door demanding your money
3. Discloses are compulsory. MyLikes won’t be a company that the FTC will be chasing anything soon for its non-compliance of its rules.
4. Their system only allows you to tweet up to one ad per day. This will cut the chances of you spamming your followers, as well as allowing your account to be potentially suspended by Twitter.
If you sign up for a MyLikes account, you’ll get a chance to win an iPad every month. Sign Up below:
How’s your earnings amount? Tell me in the comments below.
Ad.ly vs. Sponsored Tweets: Twitter Advertising Showdown
You want to make money from Twitter. You joined all 12 networks mentioned in this blog post and see that you’ll get the highest paying offers from Ad.ly or Sponsored Tweets. Here’s a comparison and my recommendation on which one you should use.
Both sites insist on disclaimers in each advertising tweet. Each Ad.ly tweet will usually have a “(Ad)”, while the disclaimer from Sponsored Tweets are customizable, with tags like “#spon”, “ad” or “sponsored”. This is the same for the tweet too, where Sponsored Tweets will allow you to customize the message (allowing it to be approved by the advertiser) that are tweeted. Yes, some people disagree to tweeting ads, but
You can cash out to PayPal when you reach $50 on both networks, but only Ad.ly offers a cheque option.
Ad.ly – So far I’ve made $152
Ad.ly is the latest Twitter Advertising network, having just launched on the 22nd of September. Similar to Sponsored Tweets
below, this service mostly caters to high end advertisers (my two advertisers were Microsoft and NBC) wanting to connect with medium to high-end Twitter users. In fact, founder and CEO Sean Rad says that he wants Ad.ly to be the Federated Media for Twitter. They have an impressive list of high-profile celebrities, including Kim Kardashian, Brooke Burke, Nicole Richie, Brody Jenner, Dr. Drew and Samantha Ronson. ad.ly also allows you to donate a portion of your earnings to a charity of your choice. Their launch party video is shown below:
Sponsored Tweets – So far I’ve made $315.18
Sponsored Tweets is IZEA’s brand new advertising network. IZEA is a social media marketing company and the world leader in sponsored conversations. IZEA operates a network of over 250000 bloggers and 25000 advertisers. Izea has numerous sponsored advertising networks prior to SponsoredTweets, including PayPerPost and SocialSpark. This being said, SponsoredTweets is geared more towards Web Celebrities like John Chow and Shoemoney, although smaller tweeters will still get opportunities.
Yes. I’ve made more from Sponsored Tweets than Ad.ly. But Ad.ly is a newer network, without the backing of a parent advertising company with an expertise in Internet Marketing (yet).
Here’s the conclusion. Sign up for both Ad.ly and Sponsored Tweets. But look out for Ad.ly, which are backed by large advertisers like Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, NBC, Nestle and Microsoft. A bigger company will usually mean a bigger advertising budget, and thus more offers available to you. For example, my advertisers are NBC and Microsoft. Ad.ly also has these “limited time” offers, where you’ll have to accept the ad within 24 hours. Check your email often!
To Your Success,
Josh Lam
Have you made anything from Ad.ly or Sponsored Tweets? Which one do you prefer? Comment below.
Comparison: The 13 Twitter Advertising Networks (Update)
Make Money by Tweeting Adverts
1. MyLikes – So Far I’ve made $226.78
MyLikes is a new advertising network created by two ex-Google employees as an advertising alternative to Google’s AdSense. MyLikes allows you to create “Likes” of certain products. Advertisers can then allow publishers to
post “Sponsored Likes” on to their twitter account as a tweet (as well as Blogger blogs posts). MyLikes is currently the best advertising network for those with a low number of followers, as the payout amount is an industry-low of just $2. Instead of trying to reach $50 or even $100 just to cash out to PayPal, any small publishers can rely on MyLikes. The payments are also automatic, meaning that you won’t have to manually request a payout. The average cost per click is $0.48 – this means you only need 5 clicks per ad to cash out to PayPal! That’s amazingly easy.
Recommended for Twitter accounts with low number of followers.
2. Sponsored Tweets – So far I’ve made $612.13
Sponsored Tweets is IZEA’s brand new advertising network. IZEA is a social media marketing company and the world leader in sponsored conversations. IZEA operates a network of over 250000 bloggers and 25000 advertisers. Izea has numerous sponsored advertising networks prior to SponsoredTweets, including PayPerPost and SocialSpark. This being said, SponsoredTweets is geared more towards Web Celebrities like John Chow and Shoemoney, although smaller tweeters will still get opportunities.
Recommended for those with high number of followers (ie. 10,000+).
3. ad.ly – S0 far I’ve made $1490.88
ad.ly, not to be confused with adf.ly below, is the latest Twitter Advertising network, having just launched on the 22nd of September. Again, similar to Sponsored Tweets above, this service mostly caters to high
end advertisers (my two advertisers were Microsoft and NBC) wanting to connect with celebrities and other high-end Twitter users. In fact, founder and CEO Sean Rad says that he wants Ad.ly to be the Federated Media for Twitter. They have an impressive list of high-profile celebrities, including Kim Kardashian, Brooke Burke, Nicole Richie, Brody Jenner, Dr. Drew and Samantha Ronson.
Recommended for those with high number of followers (ie. 10,000+).
4. TwittAd – So far I’ve made $817.72
TwittAd is the original (and the first) Twitter advertising network. Currently, the payment system 
is “Pay Per Opportunity”,where you sell your background and allow 3 advertising tweet on your twitter account for a sett time (usually 7 days). Although there aren’t many opportunities, once in a while an opportunity once pop up, and it can be quite high paying too (one was $100! for just 7 days).
Recommended for those with a medium number of followers (ie. in the thousands).
5. RevTwt - So far I’ve made $165.99
Although RevTwt‘s website does look like a scam, I’ll admit it’s not a scam. RevTwt advertising are placed as a tweet, which is displaye
d on your Twitter Profile. There are no disclaimers for the ads, so your followers may find it hard to distinguish between ads and real tweets. Unlike Magpie though, RevTwt pays per click, not per view (a.k.a. Pay-Per-Tweet). This allows the system to be more open to click fraud, similar to Google AdSense, although their system in place seems to be able to detect fraud pretty well, by looking at RevTwt’s Twitter profile. If you have over 8,000 followers, you become part of RevTwt‘s Elite program, with higher paying ads up to $0.20 per click. Normal adverts pays around $0.05 per click.
Update: MyLikes’ average is $0.48 per click. You can earn 5 times more with MyLikes compared with RevTwt.
6. Be-A-Magpie – So far I’ve made $429.70
Be-A-Magpie, a company located in Germany, places relevant advert “tweets” which are placed along with your existing tweets. They pay according to 4 different models: pay per view, pay per click, pay per lead and pay per sale. Just like any other Entrepreneurial Teenager would do, I signed up for this service (with a sub account) to experiment with it. At first, the adverts were about Magpie itself, or Magpie’s parent company’s other product called Stock Pilot. And then I discovered they paid an extremely high €20-30 per pay-per-view tweet. You can cash out after you reach €50. Now, simple maths can tell you that with only 2 magpie tweets, you can get up to €50 in your PayPal already! So you might be asking, I made $429.70 (or €323.90) from something as simple as this? Well, it’s the truth. Read the blog post about Magpie, with the PayPal payment proof.
Update: Seems pretty inactive now. I’m not receiving any more ads from Magpie.
7. PayMeTweets
PayMeTweets pays you to retweet sponsors. In my opinion, they pay so ridiculously low (less than $0.100 CPM per retweet, or less than $0.10 per 1000 followers) it’s not even worth it. With my @joshlam account (with 45,000+ followers), the ads pay $0.20-$0.80, which is really low when compared to Sponsored Tweets ($110 per tweet) or Magpie (€32/$46 per tweet).
8. TweetROI
Unlike PayMeTweets, the payment terms are more reasonable. The highest tweet pays $2.5, and with a $50 payout, this isn’t too bad. Similarly to the other smaller advertising networks, there doesn’t seem like many opportunities available.
9. AdCause
AdCause is a Twitter advertising network with a twist. They allow you to donate a portion (or all of) your earnings to a specific charity of your choice. While this seems like a good idea, there doesn’t seem like a load of advertisers on this network once again.
10. twivert
Twivert is a Pay Per Click advertising network, similar to RevTwt above. On average, the payment terms is $0.01 per click. Sign up though this promotional link to get a $5 bonus. Overall, the payout is one of the lowest compared to the other networks, although the earning potential seems quite low.
Make money by Shortening URL’s
11. adf.ly
Adf.ly or “AdFly” is a Pay-Per-Impression advertising network. Unlike other networks, adf.ly shows an ad while your visitor is being transfer to their link – which might be an annoyance to your followers. Payment is based on CPM, with up to $1.5CPM for US visitors to $0.50CPM for International Visitors. View this sample shortened link http://adf.ly/59/joshlam where an ad (in my case this was simply adf.ly‘s website) is shown before being redirected to joshlam.com. Notice the “Skip Ad” button at the top right.
12. Tweetbucks
Tweetbucks allow you to make money via affiliate links, abet Tweetbucks will take a portion of the affiliate earnings per sale. To 
be honest, this is really a lazy man’s way to not signing up to ClickBank, Commission Junction or Amazon Associates and just create the links yourself. By signing up to these networks yourself, no third-party will take a portion of your earnings, which will mean more money for you.
13. adjix.com
Those shortened URL’s contain an iFrame which contains ads. The payouts are quite low compared to the two other service I mentioned above. I only suggest using Adjix if you have a large base of followers, otherwise you’ll find it quite hard to monetize this service. Personally, I don’t actually like this service much.
(14. Revtwt)
Revtwt has been previously mentioned above as a Pay-Per-Click network, but they also allow you to make money by Shortening Links.
Scams
As much as I’ll like to promote some of these companies, I have to shame some companies as well. These companies are unlikely to pay you any money, even though you’ve tweeted their ads. Do not sign up for these networks. Here’s the list:
YakBurst
YakBurst is a scam. They will not pay you any requested funds from your account. It states that payments will be made from the 1st to the 15th every month. I’ve still haven’t received a singly payment from them yet from a request made 2 months ago. www.yakburst.com
I am currently reviewing the following sites: Adapt.ly, TwtMob.com, CrowdRally.com. As soon as I get accepted / paid I will add them here.
| Network | Advertisting Model | Disclourse | Referral Program? | Mininium Payout | Payment Options |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MyLikes | Pay Per Click | Required, Shown as: #ad | Yes | $2 | PayPal |
| Sponsored Tweets | Pay Per Tweet | Required, Customizeable | No | $50 | PayPal |
| Ad.ly | Pay Per Tweet | Required, Shown as: (Ad) | Yes | $50 | PayPal, check |
| RevTwt | Pay Per Click | None | Yes | $20 | PayPal, check at $100 |
| TwittAd | Pay Per "Opportunity" (usually 3 tweets and your background) | Required | Yes | $30 | PayPal |
| Be-a-Magpie | Pay Per Lead and Pay Per Tweet | Required, but Custom | Yes | 50 | PayPal |
| AdCause | Pay Per "Opportunity" | None | No | $25 | PayPal |
| Pay Me Tweets | Pay Per Tweet | None | No | $50 | PayPal |
| TweetROI | Pay Per Tweet | None | No | $50 | PayPal |
| twivert | Pay Per Click | None | No | $30 | PayPal |
| adf.ly | Pay Per Impression | None | Yes | $25 | PayPal |
| tweetbucks | Pay Per Lead | None | Yes | $25 | PayPal |
| adjix | Pay Per Impression | None | No | $25 | Cheque |
Changelog:
16/05/2011 Update 3: Updated earnings amount, Currently Reviewing List.
18/04/2010 Update 2: Added MyLikes, new jQuery sortable table and updated earnings amount
20/10/2010 Update 1: Added ad.ly and updated new earnings amount
RevTwt.com: Twitter Scam or Money Maker?
| Update: I now recommend MyLikes. You can make 5 times as much per click with MyLikes, as compared to RevTwt. Read the Blog Post about MyLikes here |
Once again, there’s another Twitter Advertising Network on the interwebs. Many people think 
their website looks too scammy to be true. Well, we’re going to find out.
Similar to Magpie, RevTwt advertising are placed as a tweet, which is displayed on your Twitter Profile. There are no disclaimers for the ads, so your followers may find it hard to distinguish between ads and real tweets. Unlike Magpie though, RevTwt pays per click, not per view (a.k.a. Pay-Per-Tweet). This allows the system to be more open to click fraud, like Google AdSense, although their system in place seems to be able to detect fraud pretty well, by looking at RevTwt’s Twitter profile.
Anyways, back to the experiment. In RevTwt, I entered my (test) Twitter account information and set it to automatically post an ad a day. This Twitter account has more than 22,000 followers. I was given the title of an “Elite Twitterer”, since I had over 8,000 followers (Which isn’t hard to do). Being an Elite Twitterer, I was given access to special adverts, wish paid more than the normal adverts. The highest is 20 cents a click, although the wherether the click is counted are based on a per country basis, which is different for each advert.
Simple math can show that if you tweet an advert worth 20 cents per click and get 10 clicks, you’ll get 2 dollars a day. That’s not much, but that amounts to $62 per month, or $744 a year! That $62 could cover your monthly phone bill easily, or it could even pay for a pretty nice meal.
Well here’s my verdict: RevTwt is NOT a Scam.
I’ve made a total of $71.69 from RevTwt so far, but I’m sure I could make even more if I tried even harder, e.g. placing more adverts.
Check my PayPal history below:
I’m not asking you to buy anything. Nor am I asking you to pay me for this information. But I suggest that you check out RevTwt – it’s one of those money makers that need little no work at all, except you should tweet often (hopefully you already do), and requesting payment (don’t forget to check) once you hit the $20 payment threshold. Done.
How I Made $429.70 By Doing Almost Nothing On Twitter
7th Jan Update: Magpie used to be a great money-maker. But there doesn’t seem to be any advertisers anymore. Visit this blog post comparing 12 Twitter Advertising Networks to join other networks.
Okay, I lied. I didn’t just use Twitter. I signed up for Magpie as well.
So what is Magpie? As many of you know, there’s currently a controversial new Twitter Advertising Company called Magpie, a company located in Germany. Magpie places relevant advert “tweets” which are placed along with your existing tweets. They pay according to 4 different models: pay per view, pay-per-click, pay per lead and pay per sale. Many people don’t like having adverts in
Just like any other Entrepreneurial Teenager would do, I signed up for this service (with a sub account) to experiment with it. At first, the adverts were about Magpie itself, or Magpie’s parent company’s other product called Stock Pilot. And then I discovered they paid an extremely high €20-30 per pay-per-view tweet. You can cash out after you reach €50. Now, simple maths can tell you that with only 2 magpie tweets, you can get up to €50 in your PayPal already! An example of the tweets are shown below.
So you might be asking, I made $429.70 (or €323.90) from something as simple as this? Well, it’s the truth. Check out my PayPal history:
Not Bad. So that’s all there is to the Magpie program. There’s so little work involved, anyone could earn a few euros with no experience.
I know Twitter is for real people, and asks the question “What are you doing right now?”, not “What are you advertising right now? “. But these magpie are actually relevant to your normal tweets, making them less like “advertising”, and sometimes they make it hard for someone to realize if it’s an ad or a real tweet.
Therefore, I’m closing the experiment down. But if you’ll like to experiment with Magpie and prehaps earn a few dollars euros, I suggest you to sign up for Magpie. Who knows, you might even get a few hundreds euros just like me!
Tell me how Magpie worked out for you in the comments! I’ll love to know!
4 Ways To Monetize Twitter!
Twitter is a social network which simply asks the question, “What are you doing?” And you reply in 140 characters or less by mobile texting, instant message, or the web. It okay if you’re still new to this Twitter “thing”, you’re not alone. 26% of the U.S. population don’t even know what Twitter is yet. Hopefully after this post, we’ll change your mind.
RevTwt
Simliar to Magpie below, RevTwt posts Advertisting links into your tweets. Unlike Magpie, the tweet are paid per click, not pay per view. Many people turn off the idea of ads in their timeline, so there maybe a situation where they might unfollow you due to the ads. The rate is from $0.01 to $0.10 per click, while you can cash out to your Paypal account after reaching $20 in your account.
TwittAd uses your Twitter profile page background to place ads. Advertisers use TwittAd’s website listing of Twitter users making their profile available to search for relevant Twitter accounts. Twitter users place information about their Tweets, their bidding place, location, topic. If an advertiser finds a suitable Twitter account, he/she will place a order for that Twitter account. The Twitter account user can choose to accept or deny this offer.
The makers of TwittAd also created What’s your tweet worth? to allow Twitter users to estimate how much their account is worth. This is a great tool as many people either hope for too much money or undercharge, leaving them short-changed. You can cash out to your PayPal account when your account reaches $30.
Josh’s Advice: Use What’s your tweet worth?, but reduce that price by $5, but always have a price below $100 a month. This will increase the chances of you getting an advertiser interested in you as they may think yo
u’re undervaluing your profile, but you actually not. Try to get over 100 followers before adding your profile on the listing, as well. This makes the advertiser more attracted to your profile as there is a larger audience.
Magpie is another advertising solution for Twitter. Magpie, though, tweets adverts instead of using a Twitter’s user background. Many people turn off the idea of ads in their timeline, so there maybe a situation where they might unfollow you due to the ads.
Magpie also pays pretty quite well – with the cost depending on your number of followers – so get more followers first! You can cash out when you reach 50 Euros. Josh’s Tip: Remove the “#magpie” tag option to hide your Magpie tweets, set your Pre-Approval off, and make it your tweet/ad ratio to 1 tweet/1 ad.
Unlike the other three, Adjix helps you montize your Twitter account by using those shortening URL’s. Those
shortened URL’s contain an iFrame which contains ads. The payouts are quite low compared to the two other service I metioned above. I
only suggest using Adjix if you have a large base of followers, otherwise you’ll find it quite hard to monetize this service. Personally, I don’t actually like this service much.
Do you have any other ideas on how you could monetize Twitter? Comment Below!
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