World Of Mobile & Telecommunication.

According to the makers of Twitter it is a service which allows friends, relatives and coworkers to communicate through short messages which are not more than 140 characters in length. Twitter is a micro blogging service in other words a normal blog has longer posts. But on twitter it is not unusual to see people answering mundane questions about their life such as “what did you have for breakfast”. These micro-blogs are called tweets and everybody from Hollywood stars to singers and everybody else are jumping on to the bandwagon. It is almost as if people are addicted to it. Now many people are astounded by the simplicity of the system and can’t seem to understand why anyone would spend their time reading about what somebody had for breakfast, well but people do. And there in lays your scope for making money through this medium. 

 The best part of twitter is that your readers will not have to open your message to read it is already opened for them. Let’s take the example of this domain registration site called namecheap.com that ran Christmas contest on Twitter. They were offering a free domain registration to couples who would answer one of the questions correctly as a twitter reply. These questions were sent by the company each hour. Of course they got a lot of people who replied, this meant a huge database of captive customers and they can now market to them over and over again. 

 So, if you also have a product or service that you sell online you can use twitter to successfully market your product to the thousands of twitter members. There are other ways to make money through twitter as well. But before you start your online money making efforts you will need to gather high quality traffic. To do this, reply to all the messages that you get from members who follow you, try to add as many new members to your group as possible. Make your twitter profile as interesting as you can, for instance add your picture and include the URL to your blog if you have one most people will check out your profile before following you. Add frequent and interesting tweets. Be a friendly with fellow tweeters who follow you, thank people who follow you with a direct message. 

 Once you have garnered with good number of tweeters who follow you, this database can be successfully used to generate an income. Here are some ideas on how you can do this. Since most people who follow you will read your messages this can serve as ca potent forum for advertising. All you have to do is include the advertisement in about 5 - 6 words at the end of your tweet. Many advertisers would be willing to pay you for your efforts. Particularly tweeters who have a large base of followers often receive such offers. You could make every 10th or 20th tweet into an advertisement. You need to be careful to not overdo it here. So you can include pieces of interesting information in 9 tweets while the tenth can be an advertisement for Coke.