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As everyone knows, Twitter is one of those giants of the internet that hasn’t quite been able to turn its incredible popularity into a direct money machine for its founders.

Last week, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone hinted that that might soon change. He cryptically talked about revealing details “later this month” and “soon,” adding that there are “other ways to make money besides advertising.”

Stone added that, “When we develop this monetization platform, it’s not going to just be for us. It will actually extend to all of these apps.”

Hopefully, those apps include the likes of Sponsored Tweets, Tweet Adder and other apps we’ve encouraged you to try here at ProTwit. As we’ve mentioned before, Twitter recently added something called @anywhere, a tool designed to work with third party sites as well.

This would be a great time to get on board with Sponsored Tweets, Ad.ly and all the other off-shoots we’ve told you about. If Twitter is serious about integrating them into the monetization of Twitter, you want to be part of it!

Let’s hope that the company’s money making efforts don’t negatively impact your own, that’s all. We’ll have to wait and see.

It’s cool that Twitter seems friendlier to the many clients and apps that have sprung up in its wake than you’d expect from other big companies.

Who knows? Maybe Biz Stone and company mean they’ll just take Twitter public and personally clean up in the stock market – if such a thing is still possible.

You’ve seen thousands of tweets since you first started using Twitter. And I bet you never noticed what the highly reputable folks at MarketMeTweet noticed: that every tweet ends with a bit of text like this:

“[sent] two minutes ago from Twitter”

Or maybe it says “…from TweetDeck” or “…via web.”

As MarketMeTweet asks, why let that little bit of real estate go to waste? That’s where TweetBrand comes in.

You download this free application, follow the directions, and from now on, all your tweets will be “branded.” Instead of ending with “Sun 28 Feb 19:22 via API” or “…via UberTwitter”, it will say “two minutes ago from YourBrand.”

And when someone clicks on that “YourBrand” phrase at the bottom of your tweet, they’ll get taken to the website of your choice, such as your homepage.

MarketMeTweet does NOT recommend using this valuable space to push a cheesy affiliate link, and warns that Twitter will probably penalize you for doing it eventually. So put a lot of thought into the site you want to link to and send traffic to.

If you have a blog, that would be perfect. So would your homepage or online portfolio if you are a consultant or other kind of freelancer.

There are lots of steps you need to take to set up TweetBrand completely. I HIGHLY recommend that you watch the short video tutorial. If you are like me, you skip over those tutorials, but this time, don’t skip it! There are some tricky aspects to singing up to TweetBrand – make sure you follow the steps exactly.

However, once you get set up, TweetBrand does just what it says it will: every tweet you send out from now on will be “branded” just the way you want it.

This can only help you get more traffic, establish your brand and make more money.

However, there is a HUGE drawback: in order for your tweets to carry your new branding link, you MUST send it out through the TweetBrand pop up interface. Your usual Tweets sent by, say, Twitter or TweetDeck will NOT carry the new branding link you just created.

But do try out TweetBrand anyhow. It is free, safe and has great potential. And if you upgrade to the MarketMeTweet application, you get way more features.

~Kathy

Google Buzz “lives” inside Gmail, supposedly to have a ready-made source of contacts to get you started.

I’ve heard Google Buzz described as being a bit like FriendFeed, and that’s pretty accurate. As Tech Crunch put it:

“Buzz is a stream of status updates, pictures, links, and videos from your friends. You can ‘like’ these items and you can comment on them. And if you use Flickr, Picasa, Google Reader, or Twitter, you can also automatically have those items imported into your stream. And Buzz will recommend items you might like based on your friends’ activity.”

Personally, I can’t get into Buzz, any more than I got into Google Wave. When I first got a Wave account, I went on Twitter and asked if anyone could clue me in on what exactly I was supposed to “do” with it.

All the replies I got were from people who were just as confused as I was!

Of course, that’s how I felt about Twitter at first, too. But unlike Twitter, Google Buzz is too busy. There is too much going on. We tend to want our lives made simpler, not more complicated.

Needless to say, there’s no indication of any way you can make money with Google Buzz yet, like you can with Twitter. The thing is too new.

But if you’re interested in making money online, keep an eye on Google Wave and Buzz; if they catch on, you can bet the money making opportunities will crop up.

For now, stick with making money through Twitter – following the advice we give you at ProTwit!

~ Kathy

Now Sponsored Tweets has unveiled a new contest: their “Top Tweeter Challenge.”

Here’s what sets this contest apart: as Sponsored Tweets says on their website, this contest “rewards [Tweeters] based on the quality, not volume of people that they refer.”

However, according to the rules, it still sounds like you win by referring a new person to Sponsored Tweets who has the most followers. So I don’t understand how “quality” overrides “quantity” in this contest.

Anyway, you can win $100 for yourself AND $1000 for the person you refer.

If a Twitter ad network can figure out how to reward “quality over quantity”, it would be a big step towards moving users and advertisers away from just thinking about “how many followers can I get?”

While the number of Twitter followers you have is important, there’s no point gathering thousands of “followers” who are just bots or otherwise not really participating on Twitter.

This “Top Tweeter Challenge” ends on February 28, 2010, and you have to be a U.S. resident. (I have a feeling they will get complaints about that, but believe me, the laws governing these kinds of contests are very strict.)

Check it out at Sponsored Tweets and see what you think!

~ Kathy

Twitter says: “Automated or mass-created affiliate advertising is not permitted on Twitter.”

“Updates that are posted automatically to your account through a tool or third-party application, for which you are compensated (whether on a ‘per-click,’ ‘per-sale,’ ‘per-tweet,’ or other basis), are prohibited.

“All sponsored or paid updates must be manually approved.”

The Twitter ad network Assetize immediately changed its options so ads will no longer be sent out automatically. All ads will have to be manually approved from now on.

Be sure to read all the new rules at the Twitter “Help” page.

Then go to all the Twitter ad networks you’re signed up for, and make sure you de-select any “automatic” options in your profile/account set up.

Yes, it will take more effort to manually approve ads for your Twitter feed from now on, but this change will mean must less junk on Twitter for everyone!

By Kathy Shaidle

As I’ve explained before, with SponsoredTweets, you make money when advertisers run promotions on your feed, but you also earn a percentage of money earned by people you’ve signed up for SponsoredTweets.

I’ve been getting lots of emails lately from SponsoredTweets, telling me I’ve made money from people I’ve referred. This increase has happened suddenly and I take it to mean that SponsoredTweets is growing and thriving.

I’ve also been getting lots more messages in my inbox from RevTwt, telling me I’ve got new ads I can run on my Twitter feed. These ads pay an average of 0.05 cents a click. That’s not a huge amount, obviously.

But I like the fact that many of RevTwt’s ads are slightly (note: I said “slightly”) less “spammy” than those run by similar Twitter ad networks.

I’ve gotten grief from my followers when I’ve run really bad ads that slipped through when I didn’t monitor what I was running.

Your followers DO notice this, and they care. Don’t risk losing followers for the chance to make a nickel!

Anyway, I sense that all this activity (along with RevTwt’s much-needed website makeover) means Twitter network advertising is hanging on in this economy. Imagine how it might take off in boom times.

Start exploring these money-making opportunities now so you’ll be ready when the economy turns around.

~ Kathy

I’m pretty proud of the fact that I’ve gotten more than 5000 Twitter followers without using spam, scams or software.

My tactic was simple: I made sure new posts at my blog – which is my main focus on the web – were tweeted automatically. This gave my followers a regular stream of stuff from me, but not too much.

Using TweetDeck to monitor what conversations were going on, I also retweeted other people’s really good tweets. My followers appreciated my introducing them to new people who had cool things to say.

And finally, I used a trick called “follow the followers.” That is, I looked at the people already following someone else who writes about the same topics I do, then I followed their followers.

Usually, most of these people would end up following me, too. After all, we were all interested in the same topics, right?

I did all this manually, and it took a lot of time. However, I recently got the chance to try Tweet Adder software, which promised to automate a lot of these tasks.

I tried the “follow the followers” method using Tweet Adder. Under “Search”, I selected “Search the Followers of Another User”, typed in their @name, and hit “Search.”

A pop up came up, I selected all names that were listed – and then I didn’t understand what I was supposed to do next.

Luckily, I figured it out by myself. Tweet Adder says there’s a “Who to Follow Tab” but I can’t find it. However, I just went to “Follow” and selected “Send Follows Now”. Sure enough, that started the “follow the followers” process, except it was all automated.

I’m still finding my way around Tweet Adder and will have more to say later. I think they could make it a lot easier to use – not even the tutorials were very helpful. Or maybe I’m just pressed for time and impatient.

Tweet Adder almost has too many functions and options. It will take me a while to figure out how to get the most out of it.

I love that you can get Mac or PC versions of Tweet Adder. You can try it HERE.

By Kathy Shaidle

It’s hard to keep track of all the Twitter ad networks out there, promising you can make money through Twitter by running ads on your feeds.

This week I checked out two new (to me) Twitter ad networks: Twivert.

First, Twivert: this network is still in beta, and all the bugs haven’t been worked out yet, as they themselves admit on their website (which also has a couple of off-putting typos – Dear Twivert: hire a proofreader!)

With Twivert, you decide how many ads you want to run each day, under “Tweeting Frequency”. (I chose two). You can also choose the time slots you want ads to run in, which is great if your followers tend to be in one time zone.

I also chose the “Pre-approve Ad” option, so I wouldn’t have to deal with messages asking me to approve this ad or that.

You can also choose the subject matter you’ll accept for your ads, from “Everything” to “Dating” or “Politics” or whathaveyou. I narrowed down the subjects of ads I want in my feed, after some of my followers found one dating ad a turn-off.

Twivert also has a referral program, to reward you if you refer a new “twitterer” or advertiser.

There isn’t big money to be make with Twivert but can be a good option for you if you are looking for an easy, customizable, low frequency Twitter ad network to join.

By Kathy Shaidle

As I’ve said here before , SponsoredTweets is one of my favorite Twitter ad networks.

Now they’ve added a feature that makes them even better.

The new SponsoredTweets Firefox extension makes it easier for potential advertisers to find you.

Here’s how it works:

An advertiser (or anybody who wants to) installs the SponsoredTweets Firefox extension. From then on, whenever they sign into Twitter and look at the tweets coming up on their Twitter.com home page,  they’ll see a slight difference.

Now, if they are following someone who is already a SponsoredTweets affiliate tweeter (that’s you and me), they’ll see “Hire me for $X.XX”in gold type within that person’s every post.

The gold type really stands out. So if an advertiser is scrolling through their feed, they are that much more likely to see that you’re a tweeter who is looking for advertisers.

If the price is right – who knows? Maybe you’ll just capture the advertiser’s attention and they’ll hire you.

Even if you are not an advertiser, why not install the SponsoredTweets Firefox extension, for an easy way to see what your competitors are charging to run ads on their feeds?

(And if you aren’t already signed up to run ads for SponsoredTweets clients – what are you waiting for?)

I’ve found the SponsoredTweets Firefox extension pretty revealing! Check it out. It’s free and easy to install.

~ Kathy