Today Protwit is talking with Brian Carter, the cofounder of TweetROI.

ProTwit: Tell us about TweetROI?

Brian: TweetROI is a pay-per-tweet service modeled a bit after Google AdWords; it provides a lot of power and control to both twitterers and marketers. Fundamentally, it’s about letting twitterers make money on their influence and letting marketers and PR folks leverage the influence of twitterers by paying them. But we wanted it to be proportional- if you have more influence, you should get paid more for your tweets. And that same proportionality means marketers can get better ROI- they pay more for more influence, but that should get them more business results too.  We do that with our UserRank system- we rate every twitterer in terms of their reach, talkativness, conversationality, and virality. (editors note 3 invented words there:)

ProTwit: What got you interested in creating a make money on twitter product?

Brian: I saw the negative reaction Magpie got… but I work at an Internet marketing agency and I wanted a solution for the middle sized businesses that don’t have the time or expertise to build a 20,000 follower Twitter profile. One day I thought, why not a pay-per-tweet service that gives twitterers more control- they should be able to write the tweets in their own words and control what goes into their stream. I had spent a LOT of time tweeting in 2008 and I wanted to create a pay-per-tweet solution that better fit the Twitter ethos. So control and authenticity were the essence of the original vision.

ProTwit: How does TweetROI differ from Rvtwt and Be-A-Magpie?

Ok, I’ve actually been debating on even doing a review of this product, only because once I started using it, I really did want to keep it a secret.

When I first bought hummingbird software, I had around 3000 followers and had been using twitter for 2 years. I was manually adding followers and following back new people following me every day to the tune of about 50 people. I would click on each profile and see what they were tweeting about and then perhaps follow them. I was literally spending a couple of hours a day just following new people and I started getting addicted to getting more followers. I kind of equate it to World of Warcraft, where you would walk around collecting gold coins all day; I did the same with twitter. Anytime I would see someone with a twitter button or badge on their site, I would click to follow them. (And just like WOW, it is a huge time suck!)

Then I took a look at the hummingbird web site, read the pitch and was skeptical mainly because of the steep price. But then did some research on the guys who made the software, over at Mesiablabs and when I found out that they all had around 40,000 followers each I instantly shelled out the 200 bucks. (It’s 50% off now)

After using the software for a few days, I was pleasantly surprised. I was like a kid in a candy store and couldn’t believe how quickly my followers were growing and how I didn’t have to click on that follow button all day long anymore. I’d actually wake up in the morning excited just to see how many new followers I had got overnight. After a week or so and when I linked on some of my blog posts and got instant traffic, I really started to realize the true power of having a lot of twitter followers.

I wanted to keep my main twitter account for general marketing and personal stuff, and Protwit just for my blog and making money on twitter stuff.

Well the results speak for themselves after owning the software for 3 months: ninjachad has over 25,000 followers and Protwit is over 13,000. I actually broke the top 1000 twitter users a few times! (38,000 followers is not too bad for someone who is not famous or an Internet celebrity? And it saved me hundreds of hours of work.)

Hummingbird is super simple to use. Set it and forget it. If you are serious about using twitter as a powerful marketing tool and want more followers, you can’t afford not to buy it.

Buy it now, thank me later. Version 2 is being released soon, and so the price has been reduced by 50%.

Get in now at the cheap price…

The king of sponsored blog post has done it again, now on Twitter…

Double Super Secret Early Signup

If you are on this page you are in the know. IZEA is currently accepting early signups for Tweeters who want to have their Tweets sponsored. The process is simple.

ProTwit is signed up and will be testing it out and will give blog post updates.

Go ahead, check it out!

Stay tuned!

1. Twit’s love retweeting lists of any kind.
2. Dave letterman’s top 10 list was famous for years for a reason.
3. Lists are bit sized piece of information that are quick and easy to read.
4. Everyone LOVES Top 10 lists!
5. 10 is 5 more than 5, and 10 is the new 7.
6. Twitter users can’t count past 140 characters, so 10 is a nice easy number.
7. Lists help bring order the chaos of random information.
8. A list of 10 things is easy to remember. (think about your milk list)
9. Lists are Easy for others to link to and reference.
10. A list of only 10 cuts down on too much information.

Do you have a twitter application or tool that you would like promoted to the money making twitter audience?

ProTwit.com Premium sponsor options:

A) 125×125 banner for one month = $150

B) 125×125 + tweet to my 36,000 followers = $250

C) 125×125 + tweet to my 36,000 followers + sponsored post on protwit.com = $500

D) All the above + Sponsored twitter contest + promotion (you supply the prize) = $750

Here is a sample interview:

http://www.protwit.com/make-money-on-twitter-with-tweetbucks-exclusive-launch-interview/

My twitter accounts:

http://www.twitter.com/ninjachad 24,000 followers!  (Google PR 4)

http://www.twitter.com/protwit 12,000 followers (Google PR 6)

Newsletter:

- Newsletter blast to my 300 newsletter subscribers = $150

Interested?  shoot me an email chad @ protwit.com

Here are a few great automation tools for growing your twitter followers.  Because, who has all day long to click on that silly follow button?  Let these tools do all the work for you so you can head to the beach.

- Hummingbird - This is the cream of the crop as far as I’m concerned.  For only $97 it is currently half price.  These guys are always keeping up with twitter’s constant changes and quickly send out patch updates.  Hummingbird 2 is coming soon and you can download the free beta.

- Twitter Brute Force SEO -Again, great tool. Set it and forget it.  Let it run in the background all day long and watch your twitter followers grow.

- Brute Force Tweeter- Similar name, but Not the same as the SEO one.  BigRichB has nearly 100,000 followers, so the tool must work.

- Twitter Snipe - The expert that brought you Twitter Traffic exposed came out with this hosted solution for $77 and is endorsed by John Chow.

- Tweet Adder – This is a new entry into the market and has multi-language keyword searches and starts at $55 for lifetime upgrades.

Chad ~ AKA ~ ProTwit

Getting your accounts suspended at twitter is actually a lot harder than you think.  Twitter has pretty thick skin and lets most users get away with murder.  You need to really piss off a lot of folks to get banned.  Here is a way to speed up that process…

- Choose a very random name -  guy1285748ljd is a great one and available!!

- Don’t bother to upload a photo. – Keep that awesome looking brown twitter default image.

- Squat on a really cool name. Register TweetGuru and sit on it for a year.

- Pretend you are famous. OK, this is fun, and the fun won’t last.  My buddy pretended he was the rock for a few months and it was hilarious. Hot strippers were even DM’ing him to hook up.   Account finally got banned.

- Don’t tweet at all. Just start following lots of people before doing anything else.

- Just wait for Twitter to mess up. Yup, even following all the rules and tweeting on your best behaviour might get you banned*

- Tweet over and over – Tweet the same message all day every day, every hour on the hour.  Don’t change the wording at all.

- Tweet only affiliate links – Tweet your favorite Acai berry diets and ring tone deals ALL day.

- Tweet only links to your blog - Even better just tweet the URL with no context.

- Tweet A LOT – If all else fails in getting your account suspended, tweet every few seconds about everything minute annoying detail in your life to really piss off your followers!

*Random recent Account suspensions article over at Mashable

OK, this one is going to get me in a bit of heat, but the story needs to be told.

Yes, you can make money on twitter with DM’s and even more money with Auto DM’s.  An auto DM’s with a product for sale is certainly spam.  But…spammers make money, probably more than you and I.   And until twitter fixes this feature, you might as well exploit it.

The formula to making money with DM’s is not difficult.

1. Create a catchy twitter handle: acaiberrylover, ineedadate, twitttrafficguy
2. Set up a cool background and neat image as not to look like a spammer
3. Do a few witty tweets without links.  “Man, I need to lose some weight”, “Time to hit the gym”, “Diet weekend coming!”
4. Set up a Tweetlater account and set up auto DM’s to spam your offer, “Just lost 25 pounds from Oprah’s recommend Acai berry diet!”
5. Shorten your affiliate link with a URL shortning tool.  http://bit.ly
6. Embed your affiliate link into your Auto DM
7. Search for people in your niche or tweeting about your particular crappy offer.
8. Follow all their followers
9. Wait for 25% to follow you back.
10. Bingo, un-suspecting users are getting your awesome DM message and some actually click on it. 
11. Small $$ starts coming in.
12. Repeat steps 1-10 with a dating or ring tone offer.

Chad ~ AKA ~ Protwit