When there are big community like Twitter, Myspace and facebook with an high amount of users, there are a few people are bound to figure out how to start making money from them. These community web sites attract  millions of people, but still weren’t generating any money. Thus, here a case study on how to do effective sales with the help of Twitter.

I was reading an interesting post on John Chow’s blog, where he talks about  one of his latest affiliate promotions.

After launch is first “tweet” about the latest article titled “Ultimate footer Ad“, John has made $306 by selling this script within the first 24 hours.

This doesn’t means Twitter makes more money than a blog post. However, is not bad, if you consider that has generated all of those sales just by using Twitter. Obviously, the number of folowers are incredibly important in this game.  In fact, John has over 13,000 followers.

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Also, In his article John compares his email marketing vs. twitter marketing.  Email marketing still brings a lot of advantage, and it’s better method to generated sales, but a reason why using Twitter is worth is that is really quick to send tweet to thousand of people in a few seconds.

It’s easy for someone to click “follow”, but user can also block and unfollow. This happens especially if you trying to do spam or sell to your users, then your followers will slowly become unfollowers.

Also, I would like to know how much a follower on twitter are real. Usually, people just follow in order to get a follow back.

Then, what’s one of the easiest ways to generate revenue? One of the simplest ways to make money with Twitter is to leverage on quality tweets that about what you are currently working on.

I think a great method is to break people into groups based upon how you’d know them and then to use a service like TweetDeck. In my view, Twitter has some possibilities sure for generating revenue but it’s young as service, yet. The, I reccomend you to both work on developing your Twitter community and newsletter subscriptions.