Anyone Actually Make Money off of Twitter?

Yes, but ad spamming converts very poorly (low clickthrough), and even mixing real updates and ads has limited effectiveness.

There are other ways, however. =D

I use twitter to get targeted traffic to my blog, which helps build my list. This translates to some $.

I've made some decent money from Twitter but I don't send more than 1 in 20 messages for that purpose, most of my tweeting is for pleasure.

I can honestly say that in
all my 15 hours of using
Twitter I've not made a
penny.

But then again I haven't
tried to either.

-David Raybould

I'm just starting to tweet, and I can see some increase in traffic, especially when someone retweets your post.

They say don't promote. Well, you can promote, but do it mildly and under the radar if possible. Give something of value first.

I read an email by Nicolas Cole which points me to this helpful article about Twitter:
Twitter Quitters Just Don't Get It - Business Center - PC World

myself, i mainly use twitter to let people know when my blogs are updated ... i think that's when it's most effective ... for each blog i have a twitter account tied to it, giving people easy access to know when i've updated

In reading some of the responses to the original question, I'm getting the sense that perhaps you can "brand" yourself a little on Twitter by letting folks know who you are and toss in some under the radar business tweats, if you will, every once in a while? Or am I reading too much into it?

I just get traffic to my articles and blogs. I haven't tried yet but I'm still wavering on signing up with aweber. I know, I have to have a list but I only got 1 report to give away but what do I do after that?

I started Twittering in Febuary and at first I was very much of the "What is the point in all this?" which I think is the mindset of a lot of marketers at first.

However, after a great deal of observation and research I have found that I can completly automate everything. I spend about 30-40 minutes a day posting but 99% of my twitter presence is automated. I use a wide range of tools to do this and most of my content is actually valuable tips, advice and more. I have used this to build a large following (4150+ at present) with an estimated doubling in the next 30 days.

TwitterCounter Stats for @SeanDonahoe (it says 4072 for yesterday)

Look at this spike when I started applying some of my automated stuff:

http://twittercounter.com/SeanDonahoe/all

That huge spike is going to be sustained for as long as I automate most of my twitter presence and that is because of the value I create (even if it is automated). Something to think about.

In terms of actual money, I drive traffic to some of my own products (80/20 rule actually is fairly accurate here too) and have made quite a few sales because I have built up a reputation and have the trust of my following.

One important area is to actually interact with people, join in discussions and get involved. It doesn't take much.

Another area that helps a lot is the whole "Follow Friday" thing. I get a lot of recommendations from other people who RT my stuff and then recommend other people follow me. I drive traffic to blogs, articles and resources other people may find interesting and that are not even created by me and they see this as a trust booster too.

If used right you can really make a significant amount of money from Twitter. I have several accounts and each on of them targets a different market and group of individuals and again, most are on autopilot.

Just have to think outside of the box

All the best,

Sean

Hello every one,

i use twitter to great extent and i get grood traffic from just like any other social book marking site. i use Tweet this plugin for my wordpress blog, which automatically sends tweet for any new blog posts.

CHEERS!!

I personally delete anyone who obviously automates their stuff. Twitter's great, but it would be ruined by spam just like everything else.

I am sure some people have made money from Twitter. And some gurus who have a following will make money when they recommend something.

(I haven't... am not using it)

But...

Point is to use Twitter to BRAND yourself, rather than just sell stuff. So that you are basically more often on people's minds. It's not exactly a selling platform in the direct sense... IMO.

I'm still trying to make sense of Twitter. Everytime I start working on a new Niche, I set up a twitter account for it but never do anything with it because either I don't have the time or don't know how to go about it. But what's bizarre is that I have tons of people following me in my different niches where I haven't said squat in weeks or even months.

I have 7 twitter accounts and either need to use 'em or close 'em. I do have them set up on splitweet.com. that is awesome! if you have more than one account and it's FREE.

Though I haven't actually measured how much I've made, what I do is use a module on my Drupal site that tweets all of my new articles. I then have a "follow me" link on the front page of my site so that visitors can be notified when I've made a new post, so I guess I've made a bit of money this way.

I would say redirecting and updating my twitter followers is all I need to earn from Twitter because they will be redirected to our most recent posts and the ads will earn by them selves.

so the only way to earn money from twitter, is to promote your site?and hopefully they will visit it...