What is Twitter?

Twitter is a micro blogging platform that lets you post a “tweet” (a micro blog post) of 140 characters or less. Twitter revolutionized the concept of Microblogging and made it a popular way of connecting with friends and other people. The limit of 140 characters was initially set for compatibility with SMS messaging. Twitter is among the 50 most popular websites worldwide.

Why Twitter?

Twitter has been growing tremendously over the past few years and it is currently among the 50 most popular websites worldwide. In fact, it is one of the top social networking sites today. This is what makes it a big deal. Twitter lets you connect with your friends and let them know what you are doing. So you can use Twitter to connect with other people. Once the concept of Microblogging started to gain popularity and Twitter started to make some buzz, businesses started looking at it to reach out to people.

What can Twitter do for your business?

Advertisements are an integral part of any business. Let’s face it; if you want to make your business work then you are going to need to invest on advertising. Now, think for a while here, what’s the purpose of advertising? Simple, to get more potential customers get to know about your business. Now, think of a huge audience that it available out there for you to let them know about your business and many of them will actually convert to real customers for you and all that for free. Sounds too good to be true? Well with Twitter, it is actually the case. Twitter is the buzz today, the happening place where millions of people are connecting with each other on a daily basis. It’s a huge user base out there for you to tap it and promote your business to them. Just like a website or blog cannot ignore Google traffic to grow, you cannot ignore Twitter today if you are really serious about taking your business to the next level. Twitter is a place where millions of users with different interest and background interact with each other. So, whatever business you are into chances are there is an audience for you on Twitter which you just need to find out and market your business to them. A great source of traffic for bloggers, potential buyers for affiliate marketers and potential customers for any kind of service providers, yes that’s Twitter for you unless you are there only to update your status every time you drink a glass of water.

Twitter can boost your online presence by connecting you to people in your relevant field and providing you with tools to interact with them. If you are not going to sell anything or promote any business with Twitter, you can still use it to further your online profile by connecting with thousands of users there and gaining more audience for your website or blog.

What are you in Twitter for?

So why are you on Twitter? Just to connect with your friends and follow their status update? Or to check out what all the fuss about it is? If you are on Twitter just to be in touch with friends, well that’s a good enough reason to be on it. But still I urge you to think about the various prospects Twitter offers to you to grow your business around it. Twitter can be a source of some serious dollars, if used properly. So, before you go ahead and read the rest of this book, take a moment and think why you are really here. And even if a part of you says that you should go ahead and try out Twitter to make some money I really recommend that you read the rest of this book and try to understand what I am saying here and implement at least part of it to earn your next few thousands. There are many ways to earn with Twitter and they are discussed in a later posts. However, don’t get drifted or overwhelmed by so many methods that I will tell you about. Identify your strengths and weaknesses and choose one or several methods that you think you are fit for and follow the strategies I tell you about to make your business work.

Twitter Terminologies. (Common twitter terms explained)

Bird-of-Mouth

The act of spreading news via Twitter.

BTW

Short for By The Way

DM

Direct Message

Direct Messages

Private message send from one person to another.

EMA

Short for email address

F2F

Short for face to face.

Fab

Short for fabulous.

Fail Whale

The image of whale displayed when Twitter is down.

Fav/Fave

Short for favorite.

Follow

Signing up to receive someone’s tweets.

Hashtags

Hashtags helps organize tweets into categories. Hashtags have the # symbol precede a tag (e.g., #SEO), thereby providing an easy way to group tweets.

HAND

Short for have a nice day

idk

I Don’t know

IRL

In real life

JK or j/k

Just Kidding

K

Okay

L8

Late

Lists

Twitter Lists is a way to organize the users you follow.

lmk

Let me know

mistweet

A tweet which makes you regret later

retweet

The act of re-posting a tweet from another Twitter user.

Repeatweet

Resending a tweet in case anyone missed it.

RT

retweet

Tweeple

Twitter members or users.

Tweeting

The act of posting a tweet.

ttyl

Talk To You Later

TIA

Thanks In Advance

@Reply

A public message sent from one person to another. It starts with a @username prefix.

Trending Topics

Topics that are gaining popularity fast.

To be honest, when I first heard about Twitter and the concept of Microblogging, it didn’t impress me.  What you can do with 140 characters, was my first thought. Well as it turns out now, you can do a lot with 140 chars. So, once I heard about all the buzz Twitter was making I jumped the bandwagon just to check out what all the fuss was about.

And then there is this new buzz of making money with Twitter. Use Twitter and make money, well sounds cool. But there was only one problem. No one was really sure on how to make money with Twitter and many were skeptical about whether you can really make money on Twitter. There was hardly any good guide available and all I had to learn was all by myself. In the process I ended up doing many right and wrong things and even lost a lot of time on Twitter without any success. So, one day I decided to put an end to all this and start concentrating on my other online businesses. But before that I gave myself two weeks on put a last effort on Twitter. I spent the first three days of the two week just thinking why I was failing and where was I going wrong. I analyzed all my actions and the outcomes. I did a great deal of research on things like how to find relevant twitter members, how get someone to follow you, how to connect with a fellow Twitter user and all the stuffs that mattered. And the fourth day I had an action plan ready to follow.

Well truth be told, I didn’t make any money in two weeks, not even in the first month. Then why didn’t I stick to my decision and dump Twitter? Well, because I started to see some really good improvements that was so difficult before. I was getting more and more followers every day following my action plan, I was able to make some good friends, I discovered new tools that helped me save a lot of time and effort.  This overall and sudden improvement made me decide in favor of giving Twitter a bit more time and I made my first dollar on Twitter two months later.

The first dollar inspired me so much that I started to spend more time on Twitter and started devising out new plans. Slowly I had built a good network of followers and a working strategy that was helping me making some decent money with Twitter. Every time a new Twitter money making opportunity came out I went ahead and checked it out. Many of them worked for me and many didn’t.  But overall after a few months I was there making nice money with Twitter.

Many of my friends who knew about my Twitter endeavor started promoting their business and I helped them getting started with it. In the process I realized how easy it was to get drifted from your goal if you didn’t know or do things properly. There are no magic to become successful on Twitter and certainly no secret strategy. It’s about doing things right.  So one fine day, I decided to come up with a guide that helped anyone (even an absolute starter who has never been on Twitter) to get started with making money on Twitter. And basically that’s’ the story behind this book.

But before you begin let me point out that there are no shortcuts or secrets. You still need to do all the hard work to be successful. It takes some time before you can see your first Twitter dollar. But never lose patience, just keep working smart and you will be there counting your Twitter dollars with a big grin on your face.

Good luck!

Hi, I am Jay, and this is my blog on making money with Twitter.

My plan was to write an e-Book on the subject, but am too lazy to do it and thats why I have come up with this blog to write on the topic as and when I can.  Hope I am able to help you in making some money with Twitter.