Earn Money Tweeting with Sponsored Tweets

In my previous post touting Ad.ly, I mentioned that I’d signed up for another “make money with Twitter” platform. That other platform is Sponsored Tweets.

Like Ad.ly, Sponsored Tweets matches you up with big companies who pay to send out tweets to your followers.

It sounds shallow, but my reasons for signing up with Sponsored Tweets were the same ones I mentioned with Ad.ly: their site didn’t look a fly by night operation. They’ve signed up some celebrity tweeters like Holly Madison and Carrot Top. And the sign up process was easy and smooth. There weren’t any weird “catches” or any fine print.

Sponsored Tweets suggests a “charge per tweet” based on your number of Twitter followers, how often you post, and other metrics. They suggested around $6 for me, but I pushed it up to $7, to see what would happen.

Sponsored Tweets asks other information, like keywords that best describe what you tweet about, your age and gender.

Just like with Ad.ly, you’re in control of which ads you accept. Sometimes you’ll have the option of rewriting an advertiser’s pitch, to make it more appealing to your particular audience.

They also encourage you to refer your followers to sign up with Sponsored Tweets. You’ll get a percentage of every ad they carry as well.

I haven’t made a ton of money from Sponsored Tweets since I’ve started. However, it isn’t a get rich quick model, unless you’ve got a high profile and tens of thousands of followers already.

So far, the results with Sponsored Tweets are the same as I’ve had with Ad.ly: I’ve run a few campaigns, my followers don’t seem to mind, and Sponsored Tweets paid me. And the folks I’ve referred have made money, too.

I’d recommend Sponsored Tweets if you want to explore the world of making money with Twitter.

~ Kathy