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Sponsored Tweets Adds Sponsor Me Feature

written by John Chow on October 5, 2009

How one lazy bum made $176,697.50

During IZEAFest, CEO Ted Murphy unveiled a new feature for Sponsored Tweets call Sponsor Me. The feature is designed to help tweeters get more sponsored opportunities by sending traffic directly to their customize profile page on Sponsored Tweets. This makes it a lot easier for an advertiser to order a tweet from you. What’s more, if the advertiser is new, you will earn 5% of Sponsored Tweets cut on every transaction that the advertiser completes for a period of two years. Here’s how to set it up.

Grab Your Sponsor Me Badge

Log into your account at Sponsored Tweets and go into the referral section. Scroll down to the section that says, “your public profile” and grab the Sponsor Me badge. Alternatively, you can use the bit.ly link. Put the badge on your blog, use the link in your twitter stream, blog post, advertise page, email marketing, etc.

Sponsored Tweets

Your Sponsored Tweets Profile Page

When people click on your Sponsored Me link they will land on a custom profile page featuring your information. From there, they can create an opportunity just for you without having to be a current Sponsored Tweets customer or get into a more complicated transaction. And of course, if the advertiser is new, you’ll earn 5% on whatever they order from any tweeters for the next two years. This is on top of the money you’ll make from doing the tweet (you’ll make 5% on your own tweet as well).

Sponsored Tweets Profile

Promote Me (or Anyone Else) and Earn a Referral Fee

This is a cool little trick you can use to earn referral income by sending traffic to popular tweeters. Every tweeter in Sponsored Tweets has a public profile and you can use your referral code to point to any of them. If you think you have a better chance of landing me a gig than you do of getting one yourself, You can do that by simply changing your Sponsor Me link code.

http://sponsoredtweets.com/profile/JohnChow?referral_code=6e62b5644c8917b7d010aa705a9ce12d

For example, If I want to create a link to sponsor Zac Johnson, I would merely change the /JohnChow?… part of the link to /moneyreign?… If any new advertiser goes to Zac’s profile via my link, I will get 5% on whatever is ordered for the next two years. You can use this method to point to any profile page and get referral credit for the transaction.

The Easiest Way To Make Money from Twitter

Sponsored Tweets is really starting to take off. So far this month, I am averaging almost one new paid tweet per day. If this holds up, it will mean over $3,000 per month in additional online income that takes just a few minute to do. No doubt it, Sponsored Tweets is the easiest way to make money from Twitter.

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Your earning is really very nice by sponsored tweets. I joined in sponsored tweet yesterday. Hope I can make money by sponsored tweets.

With smaller number of followers the chances are slim to make loads of money. But then still the dollars are dollars so there should be no problem in atleast trying it out.

Its absolutely cool to see that there is such a huge potential probable when you have twitter account of that size. It's great! What kinda ratio do you think is possible for twitters with lesser no. of followers?

Hi John,

Your Blog is simply outstanding!

That's why I keep coming back for more, that's the secret to a great blog, give VALUE & people keep coming back.

Interesting, I will try this!

It's not work for me..
Sometimes I hate it

Hey John,

I have came to know about the sponsored tweet from you and then I got additional information about the setup of sponsored tweets and now this info is amazing of all.

I am going to promote you for sure.

Thanks for the information.

You raise some very pertinent points, Height Weigh Chart, and that four-letter word "spam" is right in there. I hate spam, it is the scourge of the internet, and I feel one of the greatest challenges facing twitter today is how to deal with spam decisively.

I think we also have to look at the advert vs content ratio of sponsored tweets, and I must say that I do not find one sponsored tweets per day form John excessive at all. More is definitely not merrier though!

Something like that could easily be made to use the twitter api... Death to the developer that actually brings something like this to life. Theres enough spam on twitter already, we certainly do not need anymore.

Our goal is to actually lessen the frequency of sponsored tweets and increase the quality. We believe that transparency of identity is key. Spam is generated from bots and worthless Twitter accounts. Real people with real followers don't create spam.

I have a visceral "I can't stand this" reaction that I'm trying to dissect objectively. On a personal level, I guess I fear the influx of sponsored tweets in my stream (which I imagine will be just one notch less annoying than tweet-scraping porn bots and SEO spammers). Professionally, I worry that my clients (I'm in PR) are going to get talked into this by their other partner agencies (digital, WOM, advertising)and make messes that we're going to have to clean up. As for celebrities being a selling point, I can't imagine what celebrity of any real stature would ever sign up for this? It takes brand shilling to a whole new low.

Fascinating to me Ted, how IZEA and TweetROI are taking very different approaches to bidding and Twitterer filtering. In IST (IZEA Sponsored Tweets), Twitterers set the price first- whereas in TweetROI, marketers bid first. Our UserRank system I think will do better to scale for larger reach while maintaining influence/cost, preventing spam, and reducing campaign admin time. But it will be interesting to see how it plays out :-)

I don't know about this, i like learn more about this method, making money with twitter..

Dini

Thanks for the post. I caught it on Twitter and did not realize that they had this new option. Got to go check it out.

This program sounds great, especially with the possibility of earning through better established bloggers.
I just wonder if they will make payouts as promised.
But since John was wearing the t-shirt with their logo I think he has checked everything out not to ruin his reputation.

Cools stuff. They are expanding. I am wondering how much Kim Kardashian makes.

I noticed this feature yesterday, and added it in my advertize page on my site. Hope It will interest some advertisers.

Which features you are talking about Benz

That is a good info for me. I think I better count on it.

I'm still building my Twitter followers, not even close to the 40k John has yet! At least someone is making money from Twitter, even if they can't.

cool..this is new feature from sponsored tweets . when revtwt has new feature too.. look like make money with twitter is getting easier now

Which do you prefer revtwt or sponsored tweets?

There is more and more new money making programs established on the internet, making money with Twitter is getting easier now. But first we need to build followship, and then convert it to money. :D

Did you find revtwt useful for you?

I can see this being excellent for some one with a high profile and tweet asking price like yourself John.

The referral program is good, but is anyone spending big bux on these kinds of advertising campaigns?

I have heard a lot of complaints from bloggers and writers in the Izea camp. They get very little money and very little opportunities, and some claimed the fact they disclosed they were making money meant that their google search rankings were marginally affected.

I think if you have a lot of profile, like you are a celebrity or a john chow, then this is most certainly a good investment of your time.

My other big problem with this is the cost of a 140 character tweet. Some of the celebs are charging near $3,000. For that money, I'd want some good stats on how much that tweet generates, otherwise, it is an utter waste of time for both tweeters and advertisers.

And when I said, "how much that tweet generates" I meant how much traffic does it generate?

I signed up for this, I guess I can earn some good amount from this Sponsored Tweets.

What a tip there. Surely the possibility more big if use big blogger name. :D

Thanks John for sharing, you really have a lot of ideas on how to make money online.

I definitely like this new feature that Ted Murphy implemented for sponsored tweets. I definitely think that it will add new advertisers to the site and increase the amount of tweeters

Yes that is the main aim of this to attract more and more advertisers and twitters ...

They should have the balance of both to get more and more sponsored tweets and money.

aaw. Twitter is really conquering all.. wehehe. Anyway, I enjoyed reading your site. Concerning twitter, is there any daily limit on post in twitter??

Thanks...
Kudos!!

What I know is there's no post limit daily. However, you can only send 250 direct messages daily. And a maximum of 2000 persons to follow. If you reach the limit of 2000, in order for you to add again. You need to have 2000 followers..

This is a very informative blog..

Just make sure you disclose everything so our nice pariah FTC in the USA doesn't get their panties in a wad.

It is interesting to see how newest FTC rule will affect sponsored tweets.

It seems many people are afraid about new FTC rules.

Not afraid of the FTC, they just ought to stay the heck out of the business of the internet.

Very interesting.. my twitter account though is only two months old, but nonetheless, I will surely look into this. Another addition to money making schemes from John Chow... I am slowly becoming an avid fan of yours for just over a month of blogging. Your posts are very very relevant to what every blogger need to continue blogging.

My goal is to be one of the best resource in earning online in the next 2-3 years. :)

It's good to set goals, good luck with them.

Thank you. I know I can do it. I'll just take one day at a time. Committing myself to write an article at least once a day. If i can do that, I think I have done the first step, the rest will be a journey.

Hiya Richard

The article writing is key. Also do your keyword reaearch nicely around each article and make sure you're optimised properly so that your articles will rank well in the search engines.

Good luck to you Richard!

Regards

Jacques

Interesting...who would have thought there could be a referral system like this, lol.

-Mike

Wow 1 new paid tweets per day? But it definitely makes sense since you have huge followers and especially your brand John, you have a strong and solid brand!

SponsoredTweets grows rapidly and they have add on many new features from time to time now..they did a great job!

Wow! One per day!? that's really awesome money. I can personally attest that when John Chow tweets something it gets traffic!

Within 1 hour of his RT my post reviewing my top 5 MMO sites (including johnchow.com) I received over 100 hits.

That sponsor me tag will definitely help Sponsored tweets gain some more strength!

Wow, I read in your ebook it's important to keep multiple streams of cashflow. You really seem to stick to this don't you? :)

It's a shame I can't start using my SponsoredTweets account yet, because my Twitter account has to be at least 3 months old. Anyway, I've already started collecting referrals thru my blog. So right now I'm collecting nickles, but it's nice for doing nothing anyway. :)

Thnx for the tip John!

I'm definitely going to look into this... My Twitter account is about 18 months old already!

Here no of followers are also play an important role.

How many followers do you have ... according to that you can demand the money.

It's all in the amount of followers, at the end of the day. As I said earlier, this is another classic example of the money being in the list!

There is some great software and strategies out there to build your twitter follower base, and it definitely seems worthwhile doing it!

Yes if you have decent number of followers than people would love to click the button of FOLLOW in your profile ... if you have less follower than certainly people will hesitate to follow you.

Show off is the business here as well.

Yes if they want to grow and want to be fresh always ... than now and there they should keep adding new beneficial features.

John you may be getting one sponsored tweet per day because of your status, otherwise, I will be amazed if new tweeters will even get one sponsored tweet per year.

I heard that I was the 10000th registrant on sponsoredtweets (@justinottawa) and won $1000 as announced during IZEAfest but have not heard anything from sponsoredtweets yet.