Twitter is the next big thing. Every single day, thousands of new people are signing up and are getting a good number of followers.Twitter, can be used to generate a few dollar’s with every tweet.
There are three main ways you can earn with Twitter:
Direct Advertisers Contact You or You Contact Them
I once received a mail, in which someone wanted to advertise some services. They were ready to pay 10$ per tweet (I had 2,000 followers then).
Similarly, you can contact people who provide some service and strike a deal with them or wait till someone contacts you.
*By the way, I did not take the offer as I found out those people were not very honest and I did not want to promote such a service to my followers*
Be-a-Magpie
Be-a-Magpie, popularly known as Magpie, is the most popular way people are using to earn on Twitter. Magpie gets you advertisers and tweets using your account. It is a simple advertiser and publisher network which pays upto $100/tweet(depending on your follower count). @sensonize, a friend of mine who uses this service, gets $4.5/tweet. He has 1700 followers.
If you have 500 followers, one tweet can instantly get you 1.5$.
TwittAd
TwittAd is a service in which someone buys an ad-spot on your Twitter account- They buy your Twitter background for a certain period of time. The rates range from 0.03$ - 0.10 per follower, per month, it depends on the advertiser.
I have covered the three main ways you can earn using Twitter. As I said above, even a simple tweet can get you a few dollars.
Have you used any of these methods? Do you like the concept of advertising via Twitter? Feel free to comment below.
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April 3rd, 2009
Good post! I don’t think TwittAd works, but would surely give it a try
April 3rd, 2009
Although these services are nice and work quite well, I am a bit skeptical on how they will affect the trust between the user and followers. One who follows somebody believes in what he recommends. But when he is paid for this, won’t it cause distrust?
Anyways, I am sure this model can be taken up ahead and molded in a more righteous manner. Twitter, on the other hand, can also introduce advertising for users’ pages in which the user can earn money, and twitter can also take up some share.
I already knew about the services, but I am sure other readers will like your review and try them out.
Thanks Farrhad
Great posts coming up 
April 3rd, 2009
Wow! I never knew you could earn like this. Amazing post. Thank you for writing this post
April 3rd, 2009
Be-A-Magpie is a unique concept, would have thought they’re paying well over the odds for that! When I flipped a Twitter related sites I bought some Tweets and paid $1 for 2 tweets from someone with over 5,000 followers!
April 3rd, 2009
Hey! Thanks for this awesome post, i got on magpie today and lets see how much i make from it
Dint know abt twitad will check it out now
April 3rd, 2009
Wow! I am loving your blog as I said earlier. Your blog is very helpful. I am planning to join Twitter soon.
April 4th, 2009
Twitter is like a breath of fresh air on the Social Media scene. I have been on it for just a few weeks now and I have met several interesting people. It is a platform to network with people you would like to meet in real life. Check me out!!
http://twitter.com/spryka
April 4th, 2009
Although, I do agree that these paid services should be taken with a pinch of salt. I’d rather I contribute something meaningful to a conversation rather than spam the site with advert tweets.
April 4th, 2009
I had signed up with magpie sometime back but opted out of it within a day. $1.5 per tweet is a huge money but I don’t think I wanna do something like that, Twitter is much more than making money
April 4th, 2009
Good post. Direct advertisers seems to be the best option. Twitter making money for its users will change hell lotta stuffs.
keep up the good job.
April 4th, 2009
I have signed up to Magpie. Its great. I have to try Twitad. And I have never known that you can make money by doing services. Great farrhad. Thanks a lot for the post.
April 5th, 2009
Damn, I got inspired by this. I am gonna start twitter even though I am an Internet Marketer.
April 8th, 2009
Nice post and nice blog there Farhad.
lol
I haven’t used any of them yet, but I guess Magpie is better !
Who likes to get his twitter background showing cosmetics, maybe?
April 8th, 2009
Wow, interesting post. I had no idea you could make money like that off of Twitter. I need to build my followers.
April 27th, 2009
I never knew of this, thanks for sharing!
April 27th, 2009
Many people have this out look. Even I do. That’s why I opted out of Magpie.
April 8th, 2009
MagPie sounds like a really useful system. They just pay based on number of followers? It’s not all that difficult to get followers if you really get down to it.
I don’t like the tinyurls and other URL shortners on twitter, I wonder how many people actually click on twitter links.
April 8th, 2009
i subscribed to be-a-magpie sometime ago. it seems to work. not sure about twittad. this reminds me that i need to check my magpie account to see what’s going on; i guess i should pay more attention to it.
April 10th, 2009
WOW! I never knew that I could earn via Twitter. I will be creating an account very shortly.
April 10th, 2009
Good post
If you have 500 followers, one tweet can instantly get you 1.5$.
I have 532 followers, but no money
April 11th, 2009
Has anyone taken into consideration what one’s followers will feel like if one starts putting up some sort of commercial solicitation within one’s Tweets?
Commercial tweets are not subtle, they are very in-your-face. Be mindful, that your followers don’t start un-following you because of getting a little wary/uncomfortable with the idea of adverts within tweets.
Just my take on it….
April 11th, 2009
There are other websites like linkbee and Adjix which also pay for shortening your URL.
They show a strip of ad at the top of page and user get paid when one click on them.
The payout seems to be good..Though I personally never used it because people might end up calling it a spam link.
But if someone who tweets a lot..and great number of followers, it can be a great strategy to make money online.
April 13th, 2009
I have decided I will be joining Twitter tonight.
Peace!
April 13th, 2009
I am on Twitter and I will use these methods.
April 15th, 2009
I am planning to join Twitter as it is a good income. Good post!
April 16th, 2009
We were planning to start a TBP Twitter account, but we decided against using ads on it.
April 17th, 2009
I will never promote the use of such twitter ad links because this will increase the twitter spam..
Though for Info its good to write about it..
Harsh Agrawal’s last blog post..How you can use Flickr to drive huge traffic to your blog?
April 18th, 2009
I am not on Twitter, but good to know.
April 19th, 2009
Thanks for the info! It’s very useful to me since I’m targeting the most people possible to follow me! (Well at least a hundred).
And thanks for the links to the Advertising programs.
Cheers,
Nic.
May 13th, 2009
I dont thinks TWITTER ads work wll in the market.
Moreover, things donot work easily for sure. I have already made a serious mess with such things in the past and lost my valuable time
May 30th, 2009
good post il give one try to that hope that is my financial money hehhee
April 4th, 2009
Hmm, I suppose it depends on who is actually following you. If you just have a load of crap users who don’t pay any attention to your tweets, what’s the use in being there?
If you look at my Twitter profile then you’ll see I have less than 20 followers and if I’m honest I’m happy about this as it means I can spend more time connecting with them and building quality relationships.
April 13th, 2009
Good Luck!
April 15th, 2009
Good luck! Hope you do well
April 17th, 2009
I feel once in a while it is ok. But there are people who go overboard, which is bad. Thanks for commenting.
April 27th, 2009
Awesome! Good luck.
April 27th, 2009
Yup
April 27th, 2009
TwitAd is a popular website, thus I included it. Thanks for commenting.
April 27th, 2009
Thanks for the lovely comment Keshav.
Your idea is a nice one, and my work!
Glad you are liking TDD.
April 27th, 2009
Glad it is helping
April 27th, 2009
That is quite cheap, but i know Magpie is very effective.
April 27th, 2009
Read TDD and learn a lot more
April 27th, 2009
Kewl
Good Luck.
April 27th, 2009
Yes! Twitter is an awesome networking tool
Following you now.
April 27th, 2009
I feel if the ratio of helpful tweets is way more than the ads, it is alright.
April 27th, 2009
Yes, that is where quality comes over quantity.
April 27th, 2009
Glad it helped you
April 27th, 2009
You should join it, its an awesome platform
April 27th, 2009
Even I thing like that
And am going to opt out.
April 27th, 2009
Thanks for the comment Ashim.
April 27th, 2009
Anytime Harish! Pleasure is all mine
April 27th, 2009
Even IM-ers use Twitter a lot! Good Luck.
April 27th, 2009
Yes, you should. But do not tweet to many ads at once.
April 27th, 2009
Build more followers then , I guess.
Good luck!
April 27th, 2009
Good luck, but tweet helpful stuff too.
April 27th, 2009
haha
They do auto tweet, so you may have earned something.
April 27th, 2009
Oh! You will be surprised, but many people click links.