Paid to Tweet on Twitter
As Twitter has taken hold, more and more companies are looking to market to people on twitter through other people on twitter.
Its the social connection that is generally deemed as valuable. Finding a good way to utilize this connection effectively without being perceived as a twitter user generating spammy content is no easy challenge!
I recommend that you tread very carefully into this realm. 
Always error on the side of being helpful to people or providing useful content.
That caution made, here are a few services that you can utilize carefully to earn money on twitter:
Sponsored Tweets (note I have been an advisor to Izea the parent company over the years, I’ve also advertised with them.) Essentially though this service makes it easy to connect with advertisers that want to share messages through your twitter stream and ALL MESSAGES ARE SENT WITH DISCLOSURE. So this is FTC friendly. The real question is whether or not you can be effective and not upset your stream.
Be a Mag Pie – I’ve used this service to test it out, both as an advertiser and as a twitter user. It did get the job done, but I advise again using caution and small amounts of either marketing funds or twitter usage until you understand the dynamics of the system. TEST TEST TEST!
Magpie seems to have the most solid setup so far, (although as I write this, it is unclear if their portfolio of advertisers is deep). Magpie has search bots that pay attention to
- how many followers a user has
- how many tweets they write
- what keywords are used in those tweets
With that information, they can come up with a CPM calculation on what it would cost to insert a text message and/or link into the twitter stream of a twitter users that signs up with them. Ergo, they publish a twit for you and you get paid!
They are German with business in the UK, so you can expect a PayPal payment that will be converted from Euros to Dollars (not a big deal, PayPal handles it for you).
Building Twitter Followers
All these services emphasize paying you based on HOW MANY FOLLOWERS YOU HAVE. No followers, expect not to earn any money. Lots of followers, you can expect higher rates for your ‘audience’.
BEWARE of some of the tools out there that promise to give you large volumes of followers.
Many of them DO WORK, but they give you spammy bot followers that are not real people. These inflate your numbers and might give you better pay rates in the short term, but advertisers are no dummies and won’t pay for your services if you serve up spam to fake people.
Plus, its been my direct experience and through anecdotes of other users, that many of the services that help you GET followers also subject you to attacks and hacks on your twitter account. Want to lose your twitter account all together? Use them. Otherwise be careful and just be helpful or entertaining and you will build followers the old fashioned networking way!
3 Responses to “Paid to Tweet on Twitter”
For producing interactive relationships, we must definitely have to consider twitter as the primary supportive tool. With Twitter as your tool of marketing, you can expect a lot, a big range of customers is a guarantee because of the great number of friends you can make on twitter. thousands will follow you each time you follow them.
To effectively use Twitter for marketing, without spending all your prescious time on Twitter, you need to set up a strategy. An efficient system that builds your Twitter following will turn you as an authority in your niche, and will effectively promote your product, service, business.
That could be true but there are many services out there that will help you generate twitter followers. Unfortunately they are VERY spammy twitter followers and that can have huge detrimental implications later. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve seen people leverage that type of thing despite the spammyness of the twitter followers (to they extent that some are even running for congress based on their twitter following) but there is likely going to be a point in the near future where the pendulum will swing away from twitter follower count. At that point in time users that have allowed to many fake spammy followers to follow them (and worse following them back) may find their accounts in trouble. The number of twitter account suspensions of real users getting turned off seems to continue to increase.