Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service. It is called micro-blogging because your post / messages / tweets is limited to 140 characters. Tweets are displayed on the author’s profile page and sent to the author’s followers. Twitter is popular these days. It is ranked as one of the 50 most popular websites worldwide by Alexa. What does this means? You can get a lot of traffic using twitter. Imagine if you have 1000 followers. If you made a post and tweets it to your followers, you might get a maximum of 1000 traffic from it.

Because of their huge traffic no wonder they monetize it. Here are some methods that you can use twitter to make money:

• Tweet your articles which you promote affiliate link
• Rent your twitter account to Beamaggie. The idea is simple, you rent your twitter account and they will pay you for tweets they send out in your name. Their system will tell you the monthly earning estimation. This is based on how much follower you have and how many magpie-tweets you will do. With only 100  followers, they say I could collect $5.21 per month. Not bad. Better than what I earn from adbrite. But you must reach $ 50.00 to cash out, that is ten months. I must add more follower and tweet more often then.

To make money with twitter, here are some tips:

• Fill out your twitter profile. Leaving it blank won’t encourage people to follow you. If they are interested with who you are in your profile they will follow you.
• Visit http://wefollow.com/ and find followers there. Search people by entering tag. You will then find people who have the same passion as you are.
• Add more tweets. You can use wordpress plugin, so you will automatically create tweet when you create post on your blog.
• Unfollow who is not following you using this service. I think this is a good idea, because people would like to follow people that have more follower than he is following.
• Put your twitter link in your blog, and email signature
• Follow me and I’ll follow you.