If you aren’t on twitter then you either don’t care about social networking or are still stuck on Myspace thinking it’s the greatest thing in the world.  I’ve been on twitter for several months and it’s the easiest social networking platform I’ve been on.  There’s just too much “stuff” on Facebook and Myspace.

Recently I heard about getting paid for sponsored tweets, or ads, or whatever you want to call them.  Monetizing twitter was bound to happened, and I know that if I’m going to share my life 140 characters at a time I wouldn’t mind making a little bit of money off of it.

Currently there are two relatively easy sites (that don’t seem scammy) to use to sign up for sponsored tweets.  The first is Sponsored Tweets – this is the only one that I’ve had any offers on so far.  The other is ad.ly.  Both are very easy to sign-up/use.

Now, if you don’t have a lot of followers (the more targeted the better) then don’t expect the money to come pouring in.  Jeremy Schoemaker recently posted how he made $15,000 in one month using twitter…. Don’t expect this to happen to you.  Jeremy also has over 73,000 followers that are well targeted in the “make money online” market.

I currently have just over 120 followers, but I’m proud of that number.  I didn’t do it by following as many people as possible or using any sort of automation software and I’m hoping that this blog and my other drumming blog will help increase that number.  Therefore, any offers I receive for a sponsored tweet will be very low (if at all).

Luckily, sponsored tweets has just made a lot of offers to people below the searchable 200 follower limit.  I decided to accept several of these offers… not really for the money, but just to try the system out and see how they worked…. hell, if you want full disclosure – each of the tweets only paid me $1 each… equaling a grand total of $6!

Like I said, it was to try out the system and see how it works – more so then it was to get paid.

If you are interested in getting paid to tweet… click on the cartoon bird below:

(more disclosure – I make a small percentage off of people signing up with my link…. it won’t effect you at all)

Once you sign up, you will get a direct message if any of the advertisers want to pay you to send out their message.

Just follow the link you get in the direct message and login to sponsored tweets (Login is easy since it uses the twitter API).

Once you login, you will see the opportunities that have been offered to you.  Sponsored tweets will show you the twitter name of the person offering you the opportunity, the amount offered for the tweet, and either the exact tweet that will be sent out from your account or the objective/idea behind the tweet that they want you to write and send out.

Once you agree to tweet then your message will automatically go out at a scheduled time.  You will then be notified by sponsored tweets that you are $x.xx richer.

Now don’t get too excited at this point because payouts from Izea (the company that owns sponsored tweets) until you reach at least $50.

Overall I think the whole idea is pretty cool…. it’s a great way to market your product if you are an advertiser.  And if you are a regular tweeter, then getting paid to do it just makes it that much more fun.

Again, If you are interested in getting paid to tweet… click on the cartoon bird below: