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Can You Really Make Money From Twitter?

by Anthony Mc Carthy on March 21, 2010

Is there money to made from twitter?. There has been so much hype about twitter I decided it was time to a test. So just a few facts first, at the time of the test my list was 6500 not to big and not to small. But all targeted followers within my internet marketing niche. Anyway lets get down to it.

The test I decided was a simple one. Tweet an affiliate link out. Don’t put the link anywhere else, just on twitter. I tweeted it just six times, this would help cover all time zones. what I wrote was @ Matt Bacak and Shawn Casey together, what more could you want? to make money on line. Go here http://www.ipcgold.com/ad/2079/CD74819.

After the six tweets I had 36 clicks and no sales, which is a click rate of 0.005%. Oh yeah it was also done on a Saturday night . So what does this mean?

Well I believe that twitter at best is shotgun marketing. To explain shotgun marketing, it is shooting a wide blast and hoping the something runs into the bullet. I personally prefer sniper marketing, that is you see and know your target. Therefore with twitter, the reaction rate is low. Now you might say that this is only one test. You would be right, except for I have targeted my followers, most have used the term internet marketing, in their tweets at some point. So you would expect that I would get a large reaction, which did not happen. Lets look at some of the possibilities.

1. its Saturday night everyone is out.

2. No one interested in the product. Matt and Shawn are two of the greats in internet Marketing. So that doesn’t make sense.

So maybe the real reason is that people have just too many tweets coming across their screens, I now get around 1200 a minute. So is twitter bad at getting traffic. No its great you just have to tweet more. The reason it bombed is I only did it six times in a night, it should have been 6 times an hour.

Twitters best use is helping people to get to know you. Thats what is was really made for, but remember people buy from who they know faster they from someone they dont.

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