As you probably know if you’re reading this blog from the start, my startegy to make money online is to multiply income sources the most I can. I got some blogs and websites, I’m a domainer and an affiliate marketer.
But as Twitter became more and more popular, many people, me inclued, saw how they can use it to make money online. In this article, I’m going to show you how I make money online using Twitter, and how you can do the same.

Promoting your blog and driving traffic

This is obviously the easiest and more logical way of making money using Twitter. Have you seen the green and gray button “X tweets” just below the title? When a twitter user clicks on it, it will automatically post a link to my post on their Twitter timeline. When a post is interesting, followers of the first person who tweeted my post will retweet it, and so on.

When you get retweeted by popular tweeter accounts (Some have more than 20000 followers) at an hour of the day where many people are behind their computers, results can be extremely great.

As you can see on the screenshot below, taken from Cats Who Code statistics, Twitter is one of my top sources of traffic.

Some of my Cats Who Code posts are retweeted up to 700 times. How it is possible?
First, I use a Tweetmeme button which allow my readers to share my posts quickly and easily. The easier retweeting is for your visitors, the more they will retweet.
Secondly, I often ask my followers to RT my posts. Some people may not agree on that one, but personally, I have no problem when someone ask for RTs because I’m still free to do it or not. The two remaining “techniques” I use are to get as many followers as possible (assuming they’re interested in my tweets, otherwise they scrictly don’t have any value) and to have lots of friends like I explained in this previous post.

Making money on Twitter directly

Here we go: Lots of people are using Twitter to drive traffic to their blog posts, but just a few are making money directly on twitter, without even having a blog or website of anykind.

The only things you need are Twitter and Paypal accounts. Follow people who sell products such as WordPress themes, ebooks, etc. When they tweet about one of their products, simply retweet them. Of course, don’t forget to change the url used in the original tweet by your own affiliate url, so you’ll make the comission for the traffic you drove.

Easy, isn’t it? The only thing you have to do is to get followers that are interested in the kind of products you’re tweeting about. A twitter account should be focused on a particular niche if you want to make money with it.

By the way, I just created a new Twitter account dedicated to Cats Who Blog, so click here to follow my blogging tips!