” This is a guest post by Christie at Misc Bytes, where she enjoys life on the internet – with just a splash of science. You can follow her on Twitter @MiscBytes “
Most of us hope to make money doing what we love - blogging, tweeting, or doing other online activities, and often the money is very small. When someone clicks on an ad, maybe we get a few cents. If they buy an affiliate product, maybe we get cents or perhaps a dollar. I once tried writing Epinions, but in order to get the rating that would actually get me that $1 per post, I had to spend a ridiculous amount of time researching each product then rewriting the article numerous times. Obviously that was not a smart way to spend my time, so I deleted my account.
So how can you earn $1 or more in just a few seconds?
Sponsored Tweets will send you straightforward, no-tricks offers to tweet a short ad for a product. You set your own charge per tweet, so of course you can set it for an amount then see if you get offers or not, with the possibility of lowering it or raising it later. I’ve received some offers lately and found it very easy to give the sponsor’s website a quick look, write a nice tweet, and get paid my full amount just for those few seconds of work. You have your choice of disclosure methods – I choose to use #ad after my Sponsored Tweets. One sponsor had asked me to change my disclosure method to that #ad, and I’ve stuck with that ever since.
I have not lost a single follower because these ads are fun and not spammy – they are for real products. You get to select the topics you want to tweet about, so I guess that is why this has been such a pleasant, positive experience for me. Aside from the easy, EASY MONEY!
If you sign up for Sponsored Tweets, you can also get paid for referrals and what they earn on Sponsored Tweets. So you’re earning money by tweeting and you’re also earning money from all the tweets of people who sign up using your link. This sounds too good to be true, but as long as this program is open I’m going to continue to get paid to tweet!
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Do I need skill at this. I don’t want to appear spammy and I’m also afraid that it will affect my followers. Just a thought.
No skills needed. You won’t look spammy. Sponsored Tweets follow all rules of Twitter. You won’t loose followers.
Try it out.
Agent 001 thanks for giving me the opportunity to write a guest post here.
Walter – so far I have not lost any followers at all and in fact people are clicking on the ads I tweet. These are not “get rich overnight” type spam ads; these are ads for products, and I do put a “#ad” after each one. I chose to write my own tweets instead of letting the sponsort write it. And of course you can turn down any opportunity if it’s not right for you.
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Its a great idea and Ive tried, but it just never worked for me!
How come so? You have more than 7000 followers. You should be getting offers. I have 1700+ followers only and I am getting many offers.
I don’t have a twitter account.
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Get one. Its easy to sign-up.
I think it is very good idea to earn some extra cash. i will give it a try. Thanks for sharing.
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how many followers must we have to join in this program
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I do not know exactly if there is some condition like that. When I joined I probably had 600 followers or so.
You will need at least 1000 followers to get any offer.
Its not really as easy just that. These networks really do a good research on accounts who would convert well and accounts who wouldn’t. That being said, just having 20,000 followers alone won’t give you opportunities on the offers..
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I’ve seen many people makes money with Sponsored Tweets, but I believe that they should have a huge numbers of follower before they can really make good money from Sponsored Tweets. That might be the first key you need to make good money.
Just like what Melvin mentioned, they have done a good research on the conversion as well.
Anyway, nice post Christie.
Regards,
Lee
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Thanks Lee!
Yes, I guess it adds a little motivation to us to keep our Twitter accounts active and keep our follower counts up. I still have less than 1000 followers, so over time I’m hoping to get more opportunities as my follower count increases.
Twitter is a very powerful platform and it will only get bigger. The winners will obviously be those who have the most amount of followers. I personally think that celebrities will rake in quite a bit because companies will be falling over themselves to get them to tweet their commercials for them.
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Sponsored tweets is really awesome program to monetize your Twitter account but It is useless if your twitter account is less than 120 Days old.
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stiff competition and it is really a difficult way to earn via this scheme especially that they really screen those who can give them also a good return.
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Nice post, never heard of sponsored tweets.. will check them out!
Thks
Sandeep
Frankly it is easy but we should be careful to accept any offers from advertisers as it can lead to loss of followers. I reached 6k followers and had several offers but I accepted only one for $5. You can see it here with image.
http://en.blogviet.info/blogging-tips/twitter-followers-milestone.html
I consider Twitter as tool for marketing not for making money online at least for now
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It is – they don’t want us creating a bunch of “junk” accounts. But once our account is over 120 days old, we have gained some credibility.
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Hi Sandeep – Definitely check them out. I am always pleased when I get a DM from SponsoredTweets with another opportunity. I’ve never had a tweet rejected, so it’s just a quick little way to make some extra cash. Comparing that to writing epinions, I will never waste time writing a big long review for $1 again.
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I can earn some bucks with this program, but worry about loosing followers.
I’ve seen many people is using SponsoredTweets to monetize their twitter account. I’m new to Twitter and I have only few followers, I believe that huge followers is the only key to make money with SponsoredTweets.
How do you think Agent001?
Calvin
Thank you so much for the share. I am straight away trying it.
Thanks