This is a guest post by Anil Gupta of scopeForMoney.com
As we all know Twitter is among the hottest social networks currently on the internet. It is the most used tool for those who are trying to market on the internet. It is boon for internet marketers. This also means that bloggers like us can make fast money online using Twitter.
People can get success in making money with their Twitter profile like we use blogging as a mean to make money. And the best thing about Twitter is that profile pages as well as lots of services related to twitter are free. In today’s post, I’m going to discuss Top 10 Killer Ideas For Making Money With Twitter:
Idea 1: Direct Advertising
The companies which want to advertise their products through Twitter. However, these companies require a high click-through rate of your tweets. The click through rate of your tweets can be analyzed by URL tracking services like bit.ly or SU.pr. Also you will be requiring a large number of followers. So if you have a good click-through ratio and large number of people following you then this is a good option.
Idea 2: Monetizing Twitter Profile Background
The background of Twitter profile can you earn you some money too. There are websites like TwittAd.com which provide services to twitter user to monetize their twitter background page. Advertisers who are interested in you will place a background image on our profile which provides publicity to their company. You can select the duration and price you want to keep your advertiser. Once that is finalized TwittAd will use the Twitter API to upload the ad to your Twitter profile.
Idea 3: Personal Bio
Did you know that your bio on Twitter could also be worth some money. Bio is the area of your Twitter profile page where you write about yourself. You can make money by putting a sales message on your bio.
Idea 4: Redirecting Services
This method to make money on Twitter is somewhat similar to the CPV (cost-per-view) way of making money. When a person clicks on your tweet links to reach his desired page then there is an advertisement page that opens up for a few seconds before it is redirected to the landing page. The payout in this type of advertising is generally in CPM (per thousand impressions). The only drawback is that this may not be appreciated by your followers who click on your link. So the point is to not put an ad link to all links that tweet on your profile.
Idea 5: Finding Sponsors
Twitter could be a great place where you can find your future sponsors. You can carefully have many people of your blog niche following you and then tweet for sponsors. Many webmasters have found sponsors by tweeting it on Twitter.
Idea 6: Tweeting Affiliate Links
This is a way to sell affiliate products through your tweets. If you are a reputed Twitter user with many followers then there is a high chance that your followers purchase affiliate links that you recommend. So by tweeting link to the affiliate product page you can get high commission on each sale depending on the product. Just make sure that you are selling quality products and not poor quality as it will affect your credibility for future affiliate sales.
Idea 7: Build a Brand
By tweeting you can eventually build a brand for your company. By tweeting your niche posts. You can create a brand image for yourself or your company. Twitter is a powerful medium which many people use; it is up to us to brand ourselves. This can happen in the long run as people will slowly begin to recognize you.
Idea 8: Professional Twitterer
This is a lot like pro-blogging, those who become professional Twitterers. Pro-Twitterers are people who do not tweet for themselves but are hired by big corporations and companies to build an online presence through Twitter.
Idea 9: Twitter Trends
You can keep up with the trends that are occurring on Twitter to optimize it on your site. These trends are topics that people are looking for most on the internet. You can make use of this trend to post new topics or provide new insight.
Idea 10: Make Invaluable Connections
Almost all big people of the internet make use of Twitter. Make priceless contacts with people who are more successful than you. This way you can learn a lot and they could prove to be very useful to you in the long run.
[Owner Note: If you want to make money with twitter then you may like to read my article “5 Best Sites To Help You Make Money With Twitter“]
I Hope you enjoyed this post and will implement a few ways on making money with Twitter. And would you like to add more ways to make money with Twitter in this series? Are you using Twitter in some way to make money? Let me know all this by commenting below.

Wow the article was smashing. I never new they were other unique ways of making money with twitter, i’ll try all of them.
Most of doesn’t know Alex. There are people who use social networks for making money. And twitter is the leading and easy way to do that, 🙂
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Excellent tips…I need to follow these tips because right now I suck at Twitter.
John Chow was able to made $1,000 with just one Tweet. Yes one tweet equals $1k for John Chow. If I can make $1 per tweet I’ll be happy 🙂
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Is that true? Wow, twitter monetization is so powerfull more than i expected. But i wonder why people willing to pay $1k just for John chow tweet. Because, $1k can be used for a lot of advertising.
Really Aki ( I am tired ot typing Akira again and again, so ur short name ll be this, hereafter, if u don’t like, i wil change) I am amazed with the 1 K $ thing. May be some one should pay me 1$ for my tweet. Anyone there?
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I’m sure someone willing to pay $1k/tweet if your reputation already established.
Anyway, change it, aki is mean grandfather in my local country languange.
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Ha ha Thats Funny. Ok let me call you Akira itself.
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haha, I wonder what will IRS say if I put “professional twitterer” as my occupation
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are you a professional twitterer? how you do that job? did you approach the company or they approached you?
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First of all, please explain what is IRS? Is it a place where “profesional tweeterer” word will become unique word?
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Yes what is IRS. You cant simply say Professional Twitter. You should have the background to prove it and they can simply know by ur tweets that ur professinal twitterer or not?
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Placing payment proof is best way to prove if you’re professional or no. 😀
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Yes and also they can find u by the tweets u make.
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And now i would like to know, what is professional twitterer tweet characteristics? Also with example if it’s available.
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@Akira So it seems you are so interested to become a professional Twitterer?
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I see folks referring to JC – it’s east for him, he has the large following and his large following already knows they will get flooded with ads…
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And the unique thing is, their still willing to follow him. Well, but i find JC do a contest in way to increase the follower, it’s not genuine right?
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Who said its nt genuine. You must have something back to you when u wish to give away or hold some contest.
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LOL, but the definition of genuine is “Who willing to follow you and read your tweet”. By making contest, people will surely follow you but their may not reading your tweet.
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🙁 Yes I had the same situation once. 🙁
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I think there is nothing wrong in holding contest or giving away some free gifts to increase your RSS or Twitter followers
Not wrong, yes…but it’s not effective to monetize your twitter account then…since follower will never see your tweet.
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Not effective is the right word. No one sees what u tweet but they follow u only for the competition.
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@Anil But its not gonna be useful. Its just like paid link building and natural link building. Natural Techniques always gets more success
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Now-a-days there are so many ways to earn online! Twitter being one of them! I used RevTwt in the past but wasn’t able to earn much maybe due to my low follower count?
We have very rare chance of making any money with lower amount of followers on Twitter especially if they are not targeted. We should aim at developing a healthy relationship with our readers.
But i’m sure advertiser will prefer account which have 100 targetted follower than an account which have 1000 untargetted follower. Just said the conversion rate is 5%, so from that targetted followers account, 5 sell will be created.
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Yes, i’m sure that is the reason. Low follower = low ads exposure = low advertiser offer = low earning
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Agreed Akira. Thats why so many scam websites rose saying they will increase the followers. 🙁
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Actually their are semi-scam. What is semi-scam? It’s true that their can make your account get a thousand follower, but it’s not genuine follower and the bad part is sometime their reffer us to get spammer follower 🙁
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Semi Scam I am not sure such things exist. Why people should scam you little when they can scam you to the most.
@Saksham There are so many sites like that but we earn low from them as we have low rep and few followers. It just works like PPC. They will pay u for no.of clicks. I used twitvert but able to get onl y 0.06$ after 2+ months. So, unless you have followers who doesn’t click on the links u tweet u definitely not gonna earn.
Or the other way some one should hire u for tweeting and retweeting their news 🙂
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And that system is so bad whenever there is a people with strong circle of friend network, their are planning for tweet click exchange !
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Tweet click exchange? That doesn’t gonna work I think and also it may soon gonna be banned like Google banned click frauds.
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Couldn’t be written any better. Reading this post reminds me of my old room mate! He always kept talking about this. I will forward this article to him. Pretty sure he will have a good read. Thanks for sharing!
Thats great. There were so many people keen on making money with twitter it seems.
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Bad or good info? Since this article will make a lot of people eyes opened for twitter monetization, which may bring it to tough competition. 😛
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A lot of people know it already, I’m sure but only few of them succeed.
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Yeah we can still count it by own finger…Maybe 10-20 people? So, you think the prospect still OK? Only if?
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They may not be doing in the right way. Thats because they lose or don’t make much money by twitter
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Yes, I guess they lack knowledge on that program so it makes them not successful.
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@Jenn Agreed Jenn But some programs doesn’t state the rules and how to do them either. 😀
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Brilliant, ! I’ve covered boldlygoing and myself (jameskirk) as far as twitter names go. And I’m really not in the least bit concerned about this technology otherwise, however, now you’re talking about how I can get a Grande Cap low foam for a buck off, RIGHT NOW. Count me in! 😉
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Hey you don’t use Twitter at all. That is so rare to hear. Its hard to see someone who is using Internet not using Twitter.
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I am going to have to disagree with “monetizing” Twitter, I really think that the “spam” affect of these ads is hurting the overall user experience which will hurt Twitter in the long run. Of course, Twitter is here to stay, but the purpose of Twitter is being clouded by these ads.
I think that hiring people to Tweet for a corporate brand is ok, I just hate getting ads or affiliate garbage in my twitter box….
Just my opinion…
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Everything has to face the risk of spamming Bro. But its in hands of Twitter that when it gets more scam ads or people involve only in advertising, then they must stop those sites to access sites.
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I’ve start to make money with Twitter through Sponsored Tweets and earning more than $20. It’s a little but i will increase it soon.
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Are you using sponsored tweets? I just got 300+ followers and I am gonna use it. Its better if you say me some suggestions.
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I enjoy Twitter and it helps bring traffic to my blog , i have set up feedburner to auto tweet my latest posts so it’s all very easy.
However i think selling ads on your profile looks a bit spammy.Building trust is not easy and that is my goal.
Paul.