Is it possible to make bread only using twitter?

I do make some sales via my Twitter tweets, but I wouldn't want to rely on just Twitter (I hate eating nothing but beans on toast).

Yesterday, I was checking my stats for the Success Manifesto 2011 blog. My number 6 traffic source was Twitter, but only 2.85% of all traffic.

I don't use twitter a lot myslef, but some of my friends do and get good results, you can get 2% of your followers to visit any link you post to them if your followers are tragetted i.e. you selected the people who are interested in certain niche. This traffic converts just like SE traffic.

I have made a few dollars using twitter, the trick is to follow and be followed by people in your niche or similar interest like eseller said.

One way to do this is to use search.twitter .com and then search for any tweets pertaining to your keywords, you can then follow those people who will inevitably follow you. There was a free auto program that did this, however I do not remember the name.

If you want to find out a few other ways to monetize your twitter followers, click the free advertising report in my sig box, I cover a whole section on twitter.

It depends on how you use Twitter, and what kind of products or services you're trying to sell.

There are people here who'll tell you Twitter is totally worthless, and there are people who'll tell you they practically earn their living on Twitter.. lol

For affiliate marketing I wouldn't even think of relying on just Twitter, but it can be a decent source of traffic.

I don't think the most effective use of Twitter is to use it by itself, but I think in conjunction with a blog it's very powerful.

I think the key to marketing with Twitter is to give it some quality time, get quality followers, and to treat it as a bridge to quality content. A squillion random followers won't do as much for you as a few hundred people that you interface with properly, and who follow you because they are interested in what you have to say.

You have to treat your followers as people, and not just a number in your follower count. Don't just throw up random shortened URL. Get a presence of in their mind as a provider of quality information. Once people trust that the information you provide is solid, you can work select affiliate marketing and product marketing into that information.

Twitter is really a lot like PPC advertising, only it's free and targeted. So, you should treat it as a bridge, not a destination.

There's many people on twitter already tweeting affiliate links (e.g. amazon deals) and from what I understand its mostly frowned upon, unless it is solicited. I just posted earlier that I think twitter may be a waste of time but I guess it just has to do with what stage you are at and how much time you can invest in it. You can also use wefollow to search for targeted followers.

If you are wanting to just use twitter for affiliate marketing, I would suggest you create another twitter account and not associate it with your brand. People don't like the affiliate marketing aspect of twitter.

However, if you build an account and provide alot of good posts, and sprinkle in some affiliate links, then that may be ok. I also agree with the previous poster that it is best when combined with your own blog. You can build up a great list and readership using twitter.

Good call guys.

Are there any decent free automatic friend adders programs out there?

I've searched and I haven't found any for less than $30.

Thanks.

As with all traffic/income sources, don't put all your eggs in one basket.

TomG.

Test it for yourself. Marketing all comes down to testing

Of course it's possible, but ugh.. only using twitter must be uber-boring?

Some people have mentioned Twellow, but there is also Twollo, where you find and follow Twitterers with similar interests. You put in your keywords or niches and it autofollows people who mention those keywords.

Btw, ebay doesn't allow direct affiliate links in twitter (straight from the EPN forum). I suspect it's the same with amazon. One may be able to get some special permission though because I know I've seen ebay or amazon deals twitter accounts.

Hey pal since you are new to twitter let me tell you a secret to it and to your question yes it is posible to use only twitter to build your marketing business. Here is why twitter is great.

Go to the search on twitter type in a key word. you will find multiple people posting all about that keyword and that keyword alone. So there is no need to target your audience it is automated if done correctly. I personally use tweet my blog as one of my plugins this builds my twitter pals every time I make a post. I also post every article I wrote on twitter at every place it was placed. This again builds me friends every single post. These are all highly targeted individuals. Not only that using twitter also builds back links to your sites which is good to get better placement to the search engines.

Hope that helps pal come follow me on twitter and you will see what I mean follow me @http://twitter.com/petevamped

I guess it depends. I would say if you are making mega bucks online and want to mix it up - then go for it. But the internet will ALWAYS be around so perfect this first. Whenever I try to run too many directions at once, all i do is fall...

js

I do it by tweeting links to my latest blog posts.

I have almost 4000 followers at the mo and I get around 30 clicks per post. I always post my latest blog links 3 times a day. I should point out that I tweet about 20 times per day so those 3 links never appear spammy. Then it's just a case of funnelling the traffic via adsense, aff links or sign ups.

Kind Regards
Gary

when i still had only 2500 followers, i continually tweeted a comedy squidoo, i was doing it as a test, and only getting 5 visitors a day.
then i tweeted about 40 times about an article posting and spinning directory, and got 1000 hits in 4 days. so i became a sort of addict. Putting in about 1 hour a day sometimes a bit more.
recently i tweeted to get people to join a directory for free, actually i simply said that i would promote their product for free, and only got 8 hits. But wait, the joke is i now have 12000 followers.
all this is making me a bit nervous as in about 10 days i am going to try a twitter launch, with a product that i think is ideally suited to twitter. so i am trying to grow my followers to about 20 000, and am hoping my new product will be a hit. hell i suppose if it doesnt work there i will still have a great product.
any of you who read this are welcome to keep in touch with me to hear the results of my attempt.
naturally if it is a roaring success then i would have gained another product out of the experiment. how cool is this internet marketing thing?
so the correct answer to your question is - it depends upon your product. and i suspect how you word your tweet.
by the way if you use "twitter karma" to clear out your non followers often, your followers could grow at a 1000 a day rate fairly easily. although i am now running 4 different profiles.
use twitter karma only on firefox.
and yes the comment above (in another post) about following people in your niche or subject is good advice, but i am presuming that over time in my case i am going to offer my followers a vast variety of stuff, and do not want to restrict myself. i might have porn-affiliate advice this week, and spinning of articles next week.

cheers