What is the primary sources of income from Twitter?

I know, people will have different answers to this question, but the main source has always been advertising. Twitter API has facilitated the development of various applications that can help post automated advertising tweets to your Twitter account. There are a lot of Twitterers who have been making a good amount of money from this source.

I my previous posts I had discussed about a few other modes of earning advertisement incomes from Twitter. You can read them here.

I am always in the quest of finding newer and easier ways to earn money from Twitter. That is how I stumbled upon this website that was offering a slightly different way of earning from advertisements from Twitter – Adly.

What is Ad.ly?

Ad.ly is an in-stream advertising platform that matches top-tier Twitter publishers with top-tier brands.

This is what they have to say about themselves. If you are wondering as to how can Ad.ly help you as a publisher, then keep reading.

Ad.ly helps Twitter publishers to make money from the content, i.e. from the tweets that they send on Twitter by sending one Tweet every other day from advertisers that they approve. Every Twitterer has complete freedom to explicitly approve each of the tweets that they choose, just to ensure that all ads that are being tweeted are authentic.

In addition to this, you can set your price for each of the ads that you approve at Ad.ly. So that means you have complete freedom to do whatever you want with your account.

I had about 5000 followers in one of my Twitter accounts and the price they recommended for me was about $80 per week from one advertiser. That’s a handsome enough amount for 7 tweets in a week, isn’t it?

Ad.ly for Publishers -

As a publisher, you have immense potential at Ad.ly. Just imagine the reach that you get when you pick 5 Twitterers with about 5000 people following and send out tweets to them daily. Even if your conversion is only about 2% per day, it works out to about 3500 leads in a week for about $250.00, which turn out to be about $0.07 per lead which is not a bad bet at all. Isn’t it?

Just check out the “Who is on Ad.ly?” part whenever your get time and you will realize the potential of this advertising stream, with people like Kim Kardashian and Dr.Drew who has more than 200 thousand followers, online at Ad.ly.

Ad.ly also provides you with a complete reporting so you can evaluate your ROI from the ads. The interface is pretty neat and simple and there is no jazzy features embedded into it. Hence setting up you account and adding tweets is pretty simple.

Check out Ad.ly to monetize your Twitter stream.

What is your mode of monetizing Twitter?