Are You Making Money With Twitter?
Posted by Amateur BlogsIt seems that everybody and their cousin is talking about “How To Make Money From Twitter.” Apparently, there are guys out there racking up because of Twitter. Don’t get me wrong, I occasionally use Twitter and find it beneficial. But I basically use Twitter for two reasons:
-to keep up with local political issues
-to get a snapshot of local news events
For example, a few weeks ago I used Twitter to discover there was a car chase in progress on a busy street in my area. I used Twitter to get almost minute by minute updates on this event, thanks to the local news stations Twitter account. When the guys in the car ditched it and started running on foot, wildly shooting at cops as they ran, because of Twitter I knew where they were, and was able to alert my co-workers who commute near that area.
Additionally, when a contentious budget bill was being discussed in session by our state legislators, I was able to determine which politicians supported it.
That’s how I use Twitter.
As for making money with Twitter . . . .
I assume the guys making bank with Twitter are serving up links that take people to landing pages. Or perhaps their links take people to websites that are pimping affiliate products. Or, better yet, perhaps the links take people directly to a purchase page. Perhaps I’m missing something but if I click on a link and it takes me to one of the aforementioned places, I don’t make a purchase. Why? Because I use Twitter on my mobile device and I never purchase anything via my PDA. So if a Twitter link takes me to a page which gives me information about a product that I’m interested in, I’d be more apt to wait until I get to a PC to make the purchase. I don’t go back into Twitter to do this – I simply go directly to the product’s page.
I guess you could say that the person who sent me to the affiliate page actually did so via Twitter. It’s true, if I hadn’t clicked on the link I wouldn’t have ended up on the affiliate page. However, whenever this happens to me I never end up actually purchasing the product. I’m not sure why – it may be because the affiliate product isn’t really what I was looking for. Or it could be that I primarily access Twitter from a mobile device and I don’t make purchases via that device. Or, since there’s a time lapse between clicking on the link on my mobile device and later accessing the page via my PC, it could be that my “impulse” to purchase the item has gone away.
So, my question to you is, Are You Making Money With Twitter? If so, what the HECK are you selling? Do you send readers to landing pages that provide more information about a product? Are you using Twitter to build mailing lists? I’m not being facetious, I really want to know how people are doing this. I mean after all, you only have 140 characters . . . .
Hit me up in the comments section.
Friday, November 20th, 2009 at 7:10 pm and is filed under How To Blog, amateur blogs, blogging tips. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
I use sponsoredtweets to make money
I only use twitter to stay in touch with fellow marketers and people that I like. Saying that, it has a lot to do with my followers remains at around the 150 range and has for many moons.
When someone starts following me I immediately check to see how many posts they do a day and how often they contain content that may be relevant to myself.
If they are what I call spammers, that send out emails while when they should be asleep, and they are all about some new gadget for sale. I do not follow them, and they usually go away after a few days or weeks.
I am a blogger and an affiliate marketer but some affiliates seem to think that they have to try and sell everything and anything, 24 hours a day.
I have never received any income directly from Twitter tweets, nor have I ever wanted to.
I use it to keep up on things that people are doing that interest me, and occasionally I get someone new following my blog.