Yes you CAN earn money on Twitter

Twitter is a microblogging social networking site. It revolves around one simple question "What are you doing right now?"

I signed up for a twitter account about a year ago but I never really knew what to do with it so my account stayed dormant for months. Recently it seems like everyone is twittering. Celebrities are doing it, sports figures, stores, regular people and unfortunately spammers are tweeting too. Since the recent influx of twitter fans caught my attention I decided to give Twitter another glance to see if I could tell what all the commotion was about.

Twitter is now much better than it was when I first started simply because there are so many more people on the site. This makes it more fun. You can find people that you know, stay in touch with family and friends and make new friends that share similar interests as you. Ciao has a twitter account, you can find Ciao's account and look on their friends list to see if you recognize anyone from here as a friend and add them to your twitter.

Each tweet is limited to 140 characters which is the equivalent of about 2 sentences. It keeps things short and sweet. You can post links there. A lot of my Associated Content friends post links to their articles which generates page views. I don't mind when they do this at all because nobody really overdoes it.

What I do mind is the spammers. The ones that post links to sites that want you to buy an ebook or something else unnecessary or sites that bombard you with pop-up ads the second you click on the link. It is easy to tell the spammers apart from the genuine people. One thing that I have learned is that spammers tend to friend request you and then leave a direct message when you accept that almost always starts with "Wanna know how to..."

There are also people called pump and dumpers. They add people all day long to boost their followers count and as soon as you approve their friend request they delete you from their friends list. So, you are now following their spamming tweets and don't realize that they are not following you back. I have found a way to control this somewhat. There are 2 ways, the first one is for someone that does not have an extensive friend list. You just view your following list (the people you are following) 
You will see a list of all the people you follow. An example of a person you are following that IS following you as well will look like this below.

Rachel1919 / Rachel Ellis
Direct message

One that you are following but has dropped you will only have the twitter name/the real name. It will not have the second line that says direct message. This is because you are not able to direct message people who are not friends with you so if you don't see a direct message link under their name you have been pumped and dumped.

There is a tool for people who have very long friends lists. You'll have to sign up to connect the tool to your twitter account. I have found this particular tool to be a safe one. It is called Twitter Karma you can find it here http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/ It is just a tool that allows you to bulk unfollow people who are not following you. It also enables you to bulk follow new people who have just added you and it lets you get rid of people that are unactive on Twitter.The reason why it is important for some people to keep a close eye on their follower/following ratio is because Twitter has a rule that you are only allowed to follow 2,000 people at a time. If you have 2,000 followers it will unlock another 2,000 so you will be able to follow 4,000 and so on.

Back to Twitter. The main thing that really impressed me was how fast news travels on Twitter. I found out about the Swine Flu before most people knew there was even an outbreak. This is great in my opinion. When you are on your Twitter home page there will be a top 10 list to the right of your page that shows the hottest topics.

It is possible to make money on Twitter
There are 3 ways that I am familiar with.

One legitimate way is to sell your background. There is a website called twittad that helps you find advertisers to put a background or a banner on your twitter profile. It is harmless, non-invasive and you can really earn money by doing it. For example an advertiser may offer you $2.00 to post a banner in your background for 7 days. Each 7 days you can sell your background to another advertiser. Or you can make more money by selling your background for 1 months time. The more followers you have the more the advertisers will pay. Cashout is currently $30.00 which is not bad. There is also a good referral program where you can earn 25% of what your referrals make. Please consider using my link below to sign up.

https://http://www.twittad.com/a/AjQ

Now, the second way I have found is by allowing revtwt to post a tweet on your twitter. You can make a lot of money by doing this but you don't want to do it too much because you might tick off a lot of people. If you only do it once in a while it is acceptable. Everybody else does it anyway. To start you must have at least 25 followers. You sign up with them to grant them access to your twitter. I have done it and there is no risk involved so it is safe. Then you just pick an advertisement to tweet. It will say something like

CELEBRITY SMILE: Become more Attractive. Get Brighter and Whiter Teeth in just 6 Days!"link will be here"

You will earn 5 cents for everyone that clicks on the ad even if they don't buy anything. The money adds up VERY quickly and the payout is only $20.00. Again you can earn from your referrals, 20% of their earnings to be exact. Hint hint :o) link is below.

http://revtwt.com/index.php?id=259

The final way that I know of has just started so I don't really know how it all works but  it's called tweetbucks it offers a service that is very helpful to me. It shortens the length of your links so that they fit within your 140 character tweet space. I used to use a service called bitly but instead I use tweetbucks because they do the exact same thing plus they pay you. If you sign up through my link below you'll be started off with $5.00 in your account. http://tinyurl.com/mtd8t9

The final way that I know of has just started so I don't really know how it all works but it's called tweetbucks it offers a service that is very helpful to me. It shortens the length of your links so that they fit within your 140 character tweet space. I used to use a service called bitly but instead I use tweetbucks because they do the exact same thing plus they pay you. If you sign up through my link below you'll be started off with $5.00 in your account.

http://tinyurl.com/mtd8t9

Some say that Twitter is addicting. I have not found this to be the case with my own usage but I do find the need to check in at least once a day to respond to messages and friend requests. I am enjoying my time spent on Twitter and look forward to seeing where this website goes in the future. So far I have had many positive experiences with this site and have learned to overcome the negative aspects.

Feel free to add me as a friend over there http://twitter.com/Rachel1919