Monetizing Twitter

You can't really directly monetize Twitter. Sure, you might get lucky with a few conversions here or there, but your best bet is to use Twitter to drive traffic to a blog and monetize the blog. Even better, get them on your list.

Twitter is a social network, you have to engage, you have to be social, or people are just going to look at you like you're a spammer. Establish a relationship first. (Yeah, I know it takes some w.o.r.k. to do that, but it's well worth it, believe me.)

If you do a search for a WSO called Google Cash Bomb it has a series of videos called The Tweet Bomb plus a load of others, that should get you going in the right direction

Well, first off you obviously need followers - you can do this any numbers of ways.. you can go and find niches that you're targetting and follow those followers and hope they follow you back. You can use hashtags in your tweets to gain more followers or use services like twiends.com where you "pay" for followers with their credit system. Also, if you're under 2000 followers/following you need to keep about a 10% spread between your followers/following lists... the best way to do this is to use a free service called friend or follow (google it) and unfollow all those who are not following you back!

Then you want to jump on a service that automates your tweets - I personally prefer hootsuite, which gives you plenty of analytics on click throughs and such on your tweets (you can also upgrade to hootsuite pro for $5 a month and get facebook analytics!!).. the great thing about twitter is people will click through on a link much more readily then on facebook.

After you've set that up - it's a matter of the content you provide - you only want to link ppl to offers about 20% of the time... the rest of it should be useful information and interaction with others.

As for your CPA question - I've noticed alot of offers say NO facebook or twitter... not sure how they track that as I don't have any experience in CPA - but have recently joined a couple networks.

I also like the first commenters post - drive traffic to your site and monetize that instead.. If you're driving people to a CPA offer for example - do up a blog post talking about the benefits of the CPA offer.. eg. "Pink iPhones will make you stand out from the crowd!!" And have the link at the bottom of the post. I'm sure that method will stay within CPA networks rules aswell as give you a much better conversion rate - since twitter users are clicking your link for content - not to be sold!!

Really, just enjoy it - people can tell when somebody is strictly out to push their products - I HAD a guy on my twitter and every 6 hours he would push the same product with the exact same message - how many click throughs could this guy possible have had???

Twitter is about building relationships. If you just post sales pitches, people tune you out quickly.

Pick a community you want to help, attract Twitter followers who fit that community and then provide them with useful tweets to free and paid resources and products that can help them.

I use sponsored tweets on twitter and do okay with it. As others have said though, you need to have a decent following. I also promote all my affiliate links on twitter but I don't do "sales pitches".. they are all natural and fit with the followers I have.

Yea sponsored tweets is the way to go but you need to make sure you have atleast a good 10,000 followers