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I wrote on my last blog entry, How to Make Money Online with Twitter and Ad.ly Ads, that it was more than a month now since I signed up with Ad.ly. On that same day, I also signed up with Sponsored Tweets to make money online with Twitter.

What is Twitter?

Twitter is a real-time short messaging service.

Twitter is an online community and a sort of micro-blogging site where you can write short messages to stay connected with friends, relatives and coworkers. It is easy to follow the messages in Twitter because you are only allowed to write 140 characters.

In Twitter, anyone can follow you and you can follow anyone.

What is Sponsored Tweets?

Sponsored Tweets is a Twitter advertising platform that connects Twitter advertisers with tweeters or Twitter publishers.

What is Sponsored Tweets for Advertisers?

Let me quote Sponsored Tweets: “Advertisers can create sponsored conversations on Twitter.”

What is Sponsored Tweets for Tweeters or Publishers?

Again, let me quote Sponsored Tweets: “Tweeters can earn money for spreading the word.”

You can earn money from Sponsored Tweets if an advertiser will get you to promote its message.

But then, if you do not have a lot of followers, you are most likely not going to get any advertiser on your Twitter account.

If you would like to make money online with Twitter and Sponsored Tweets, you need to work for it.

If you would like advertisers to get you to promote their messages, you need to have more followers.

Read what I wrote on my last blog entry on how to get more Twitter followers.

Even if you have a lot of Twitter followers but you have not signed up with Sponsored Tweets yet, then you will not be able to make money online with Twitter via Sponsored Tweets. You need to sign up with Sponsored Tweets first.

How to sign up with Sponsored Tweets?

1. Go to Sponsored Tweets.

Make money tweeting…

2. Click the sign up now button.

You will be redirected to another page, to a Twitter page to connect to your account.

An application would like to connect to your account.

The application Sponsored Tweets by IZEA, Inc. would like the ability to access and update your data on Twitter. This application plans to use Twitter for logging you in in the future. Not using Twitter? Sign up and Join the Conversation!

3. Enter your email address or Twitter username.

4. Enter your Twitter password.

5. Click the Allow button.

You will be redirected back to Sponsored Tweets.

Welcome @twitterusername, please enter your account details.

6. Check the box for “I’m a tweeter” since you are a Twitter publisher who would like to make money with Twitter and Sponsored Tweets.

7. Enter your account details.

Supply your answer on the fields for charge per tweet, payout guarantee, category, ad unit type, tags, content rating, notify via, referred by.

8. Finally, click register as a tweeter button.

You will be redirected to another page.

Step One: You’ve successfully signed up.

Step Two: Your Twitter account must be at least 60 days old, have at least 100 followers and 100 status updates to be visible in searches to advertisers. However, advertisers can still explicitly make you offers.

That’s it!

Sponsored Tweets has a referral program too. Click the join our referral program button on the right sidebar. You can use the referral link that Sponsored Tweets has provided you.

You can promote Sponsored Tweets and when a Tweeter or Publisher signs up using your referral link or badge, you will receive 10 percent of Sponsored Tweets portion of revenue for each successful transaction that Tweeter or Publisher makes. If you sign up an Advertiser you will earn 5 percent of Sponsored Tweets earnings for each transaction they make.

That’s all and Good luck on making money online with Twitter and Sponsored Tweets!

Disclosure:
If you sign up or join Sponsored Tweets or Ad.ly using my referral links, I will earn from it but only if you are already earning.