8 Services That’ll Pay For Your Tweets!
By: Abbas
July 21, 2010
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When it comes to Twitter advertising or sponsored tweets, tweetrs are quite articulate about their views, some like it and most don’t.
We’ve recently seen a boom in twitter marketing. Quite a few companies launched Twitter based advertising services that incentivize users for tweeting a particular message from their advertisers. Such tweets are clearly market as “Sponsored” for full disclosure.
Without getting into the arguments of whether sponsored tweets are good or bad, this article simply lists few of the services that are in business for your Tweets! (While we are at it, do follow @tnerd on twitter.)
This service pays you for your expertise in a given field. This is not a typical promote-the-advertiser service, in fact it lets you share your views and knowledge on a specific topic and pays you for it.
As a publisher, your account must be set to private. Anyone who wants to subscribe to your Twitter feed will have to go through TwitPub and pay for the access, that’s how you get paid too. Every time a subscriber subscribes to your feed you get paid 80% of the total earnings every month.
Watch the following video to know more about TwitPub
Once you register with this service, it automatically tweets ad’s through your account. These tweets are clearly marked as “Ad” for full disclosure. The service tries to match the Ads with the nature of your tweets. For example, if your tweets are mostly Tech related, then the service will only tweet tech related ad-tweets through your account.
Magpie offers several compensation models for registered tweeple.
“There are a number of compensation models offered. These are: Pay-per-view, Pay-per-click, Pay-per-lead and Pay-per-sale. Each model provides you with different earning opportunities.”
Watch the following video to know more
It’s pretty simple, 1) Create Sponsored Likes, 2) Publish on Twitter, Facebook or Youtube and 3) Earn money or donate it to charity!
MyLikes works on Pay-Per-Click model, so, the more clicks your tweets or shares receive the more money you make. The cost of click is constantly adjusted according to the nature of tweet, content, etc..
Following is an example of what a sponsored Tweet might look like..
It’s a straight forward service which brings the advertisers and tweeters together to spread the message to create brand awareness and make money.
Tweeters can register with the service and fill in the information including the category of the content and the price they’d charge per tweet.
If the advertiser likes what it sees, you will be contacted to spread the word for the advertiser. Simple right!
With over 70 Million registered users Ad.ly is one of the most popular advertising services in this space. It not only targets Twitter but MySpace as well.
Registered users are expected to spread the advertiser’s message on any of these two services to get paid for their work.
Yet, another service that pays for your tweets. PaidPerTweet claims to pay upto $5 per tweet. Obviously a lot depends on how many followers an account has, the influence of the tweets, etc..
PaidPerTweet has a public directory of the tweeters where interested advertisers can look at the registered accounts, their pricing structure and learn more about the account.
PayMeTweets puts the control in the tweeters hands. This service simply lists advertisers messages on a wall. Registered tweeters can visit the page and RT the ones they are interested in and make money off of it.
Once the account hits $25 or more, users can withdraw the amount form their accounts. Advertisers can spend as low as $10 for over 2000 RT’s, which sounds like a good number for advertisers and if executed wisely, it might simply end up Twitter trends.
PayMeTweets has also introduced something called “Local Tweets” which lets the advertiser pick a geo location for the advertisments. This way advertisers don’t pay for any RT’s or clicks coming out of the selected location.
SuperChirp gets a mention on this list for being a Twitter based advertiser but most importantly because the service is shutting down on 1st of August. All the registered users are requested to find another service that pays for their tweets.
SuperChirp was launched about a year ago and was covered by large media properties online. The shutdown of a service like this raises questions about financial viability of such advertising models in the long run.
Few of the other services like MyLlikes, Ad.ly and others have not only relied on Twitter but have expanded their services to include other important social media services for a greater reach. This not only helps advertisers get the most out of one single service but also helps the services make more money for their extended reach.
Do let us know what you think about Twitter based advertising services!
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