As you could see in my preview post, Twitter is the most used service for micro-blogging. Many people, bloggers and not bloggers use it to share their personal links, photos and to update their statuses.
Some days ago was launched a service called Twittad which you can get paid for displaying ads on your twitter profile. It’s not something like Google Adsense or something else, it’s based on the backgrounds images. The advertiser choose a template to display the banner and the publisher get paid for displaying that image in its profile. Let’s see the details of this service and how it works:
What to do if you are a twitter user?
- Post Twitter account for advertisers to purchase.
- Select your duration & price.
- Wait for advertiser to purchase.
- Accept or Deny the proposed ad.
- If you accept, upload ad to the design section on your Twitter account.
- Notify TwittAd through your account maintenance page on TwittAd that the ad has been placed.
Payments are made via Paypal.
What to do if you are an advertiser?
- See the Examples Page for an idea on how to build your advertisement.
- Select “Buy Now” next to Twitter user’s background for ad placement.
- If Twitter user accepts pay TwittAd via paypal*.
- If Twitter user removes your ad before your time expires, you will receive credit from TwittAd for the time your ad was not served.
*You pay TwittAd a 5% service fee on the total purchase price. Minimum .99 cents.
Feedback
Personally, I won’t use this service. I think you can use your background image to promote your own blog for example. Also I think that advertisers have a disadvantage here, many people use twitter through services like Twitteriffic for Mac or Twitteroo for Windows to send and reply messages and usually, they do not visit user profiles ( at least I don’t ).
To learn more about this service, feel free to visit its FAQ.
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I think it was inevitable, so I’m pretty happy with it, although I not a twitter’r i can see the opportunity.
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Certainly it is a good idea, I just think it’s not for me.
lol Finally Twitter enters the advertisement era too ^^
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Sounds like a decent idea. But I already have my own site banner there.
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As you stated in your post, how many people actually look at the profiles of others. I don’t see this taking off real far.
Now if they came up with a way to monetize tweets, that may be a different story. Of course, you’d then have a bunch of P’ed off Tweeters as well.
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If you have a Twitter account with a lot of followers this could turn out to be an excellent money-making idea!
My thoughts exactly Arnold-Mr Gadget. It will work for people with lots of followers.
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Cool gonna try this one, thought i’m not have a lot followers,