I came upon a pretty interesting web site today, twivert.com. Basically, it turns your Twitter account into an ad serving platform. You earn money in one of two ways: either for running the ads through your Twitter account (with your payout based on the number of followers you have) or on a cost-per-click basis (where you earn money whenever someone actually clicks on an ad link in your Twitter posts).
I have set up an account, but have not seen enough of what the system does yet to comment on how well Marketing Consultants works. But I love the concept. It is an automated system, meaning you don’t have to do a thing, although you can choose to specify the ads that run in your account.
After signing up and logging into your Twivert account, there are a number of options you can configure. These include the hours of the day that your account is available to post ads, the frequency of tweets, and whether or not to use auto-tweeting. Currently, I am only able to serve a single ad per day. I’m not sure yet if that is because of the number of followers that I have, or because of the newness of my account.
This is a very easy and automatic way to monetize your Twitter account. As long as you post regularly on legitimate subjects, then I don’t think you’re going to lose any followers by posting an occasional ad. I mean, if you collect many followers at all, you will notice that a good many of them just about do nothing but post affiliate links, anyway. So tweeting an ad is really not a big deal.
If you’re on the other side of the fence and want to use other Twitter users’ accounts for advertising your own products or services.
As I use the system, figure out how it works, and think of some ways to expand on the concept, I will report what I learn here.