I have been experimenting off and on with Twitter for about 10 years. I have become really active within the past three years when I found that you could have multiple accounts. I have one general account for anything and everything. I opened an account to marry it to my Tsū account. Tsū shut down. Remember Tsū? It was supposed to be like Facebook, only better because you could earn money for your social activity. Well that never happened. But even though Tsū closed I still had the Twitter account so I kept it going! Then my other Twitter accounts were set up for specific niches.
With regard to earning income via Twitter?
I do whatever Twitter allows me to do. Share affiliate links. Post sponsored tweets. Share links to my monetized blogs and articles. I just recently started with Influencer Marketing where you can earn by sharing links with your followers on social media. Even if you don't have a huge following you have "some influence" and advertisers will pay you to share within you sphere of influence.
As long as it doesn't break the Twitter rules, if there is an income potential I try it out on Twitter.
I have gone through this thread and gleaned a lot of useful information. Many suggestions to do things with Twitter that are brand new to me but worth exploring further.
It seems that this topic has been thoroughly covered. I don't really have much to add. But there are two programs I'd like to mention that nobody else has talked about.
Even though I could earn for telling you about this if you used my referral link, I'm telling you anyway. When you share with your friends, it's not always about money.
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Snips Influencer Network. Join free. They have various social campaigns. Advertisers want you to share their links wherever you have a social media presence. Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, etc.
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VigLink e-Commerce. Join free. It's affiliate marketing program which is almost better than Amazon. In fact, Amazon is one of their preferred merchants. They have thousands of merchants under their one program and their links are set up to make it easy to share via social media. Much like Snips, if you have a social media presence, the income potential is there.
Neither of these have an automated social sharing process (that I know of) so it's a lot of manual tweeting you have to do. But neither one of these sites require you to have a massive social media following. In other words, you don't have to be a celebrity. Their rationale is there may be people following you who don't like those celebrities. But those people are still customers and they can reach them through you because they are your followers. Makes perfect business sense. :)
So that's my two cents for this thread.
* * Now I would like to ask a question to the member who started this thread.
Aphrodite
I have 5 Twitter accounts. My oldest account was started in 2012. The total number of followers for all of my accounts together is less than 7000.
How on earth did you get 20K followers? (
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Please share your secret.