One of the up and coming ways to monetize your internet presence is by advertising through Twitter, usually by having them either pay per tweet or pay once for a lump sum of tweets over a short period of time. SponsoredTweets is a fast-growing Twitter advertising marketplace for advertisers and tweeters alike to use.
About SponsoredTweets
SponsoredTweets is a property of IZEA, a world leader in sponsored conversations that was founded in 2006. IZEA’s core values are listed as idealism, courage, accountability, love, citizenship, receptiveness, and fun. SponsoredTweets is fast growing and features many celebrities as users, including Khloe and Kim Kardashian, P. Diddy, Lindsay Lohan, and Heidi Montag.
How It Works
SponsoredTweets is a marketplace that allows you to sign up as either an advertiser or a tweeter. Advertisers compensate tweeters with a per-tweet price, in exchange for their tweets. You can set your price, choose your categories and keywords, and then approve or deny offers from advertisers as they come in. After accepting an offer, your account will be credited within 24 hours of the tweet, and accounts can be cashed out once they reach $50 or more.
Features and Benefits
SponsoredTweets focuses on creating an open and transparent marketplace. This means that tweeters approve every single tweet before it gets sent out and choose when to send it out, instead of SponsoredTweets choosing the time and injecting it into your Twitter stream. Tweeters also get to choose the wording of their tweets, within accepted guidelines and examples.
Because of the focus that SponsoredTweets puts on openness and transparency, every single sponsored tweet is required to be disclosed. Disclosure is an essential element of the SponsoredTweet system, and tweeters are given several phrases and options to choose from when it comes to disclosure, preventing a difficult to understand or out of character sounding tweet.
The tweeter has complete control over their Twitter account at all times, and SponsoredTweets is a whitelisted Twitter application that has gone through Twitter’s API approval process. They also authenticate through Twitter’s OAuth process and never store your username or password. Again, every single sponsored tweet must be approved and worded (if they choose) by the tweeter before it is sent out, as well.
To help protect advertisers who engage in the SponsoredTweets marketplace, SponsoredTweets uses ClickWatch. This means that if the cost per click of a sponsored tweet is higher than $1.50 after 48 hours, the system will request that the tweeter write another tweet. The ClickWatch system will check again for performance after another 48 hours and possibly request another tweet, if the cost is still too high.
Summary
For those looking to get started monetizing their Twitter identity, SponsoredTweets would be a great choice. The amount of control and security involved in the system is guaranteed to give you peace of mind, and they handle all of the billing and technical details for you. Tweeters can set their own price as well, which is always a bonus. If you’re looking to start making money on Twitter, give SponsoredTweets a try.
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How long have these guys been doing this. I never knew about this. Thanks for the information it’s really useful.
I don’t know exactly when they started this business but it’s been quite some time now.
Yes. I haven’t heard of it till now. I bet this post will get a lot of hits.
This is a fabulous service. Sponsored Tweets is the best. Mojo to you Stephane.
Waht a great way to earn extra money. I have some followers and need a way to monetize them. Great for publishers and advertisers.
If you have a decent following, you should definitely try monetizing your audience with Sponsored Tweets. This might add a decent chunk of money to your income.
I’ll give it a shot them. Thanks Stephane.
This would work well in my business. I have a lot of followers so I need to monetize them. I will check the site out soon.
I have heard of these people before although I have never seen a write up like this. It’s really goo to know how it all works. Good post.
Hey Thank you, I tried my best to explain how the whole system works :)
Yeah thanks for that. Please if there are more sites like this please can you let us know.
Sponsored Tweets is an excellent service. And they take great measures to protect your twitter account. I like them.
I like the fact you can either be paid by tweet or bulk tweet.
Sponsored Tweets is highly professional service. I think a lot of marketers will hop on board and a great way to connect to people on a broad scale.
Wow getting paid to tweet. A dream come true.
It’s good that they don’t interfere with your twitter feed. I need complete control over what I let my followers see.
I think Sponsored Tweets is a marvelous idea. I wish I had come up with it myself. It just goes to prove social media marketing is all the rage.
After reading about this I am very interested in trying this service.
Sponsored Tweets is a great service. It’s been around for quite some time now. Although I haven’t seen so many write ups. Interesting post.
This is a good post. I am really interested in Sponsored tweets.
Finally there is some benefits of large number of followers!
Well, there is also the traffic you can generate when you’re posting links to your projects…
More reason for brand owners to work on ‘upping’ their following on Twitter
Will Facebook introduce something along these lines as well?
Facebook already has a very efficient model to monetize its traffic where Twitter is still struggling.
I feel Facebook already has too many advertising options
Any idea on how much do these Sponsored Tweets cost?
It really depends on the size of the following. Your best bet is to take a look at their listings.
I understand it is quite an expensive affair and so far only the large brands can afford it.
Not really, I think it’s as with anything else. You won’t be able to pay to get featured by the big guys if you don’t have the funds, but you can still find some interesting alternatives.
So technically you need to be creative to be able to use this to your advantage.
As with anything marketing-related. If you just follow the crowd you won’t get anywhere.
It is interesting to see how else Twitter will build in revenue models
I think gaming sites will find sponsored tweets an excellent way to promote themselves.
Since reading this post, I have been noticing the sponsored tweets on Twitter! thanks.
Sponsored tweets are very interesting as they tend to cut through the huge amount of data available on Twitter
Agree with you.
Twitter is huge in terms of the data you can find there.
Is this just another bubble?
Not really …it might be here to stay
Its not very easy to get quality traffic on Twitter.
Yeah..there is a lot of dummy following and followers in multiple accounts.
I enjoy Twitter but really have to look through the promotional stuff.
There is just too much of data on Twitter
You’re right Liz! And if you don’t know who’s worth following you account’s relevancy gets lost in all the clutter.
I need to check this out I guess! Thanks for the post Stéphane!