Living on Twitter? Here’s a way to make money off it!
Written on August 22, 2008 – 12:26 pm
Robin Wauters, Next web enthusiast & Plugg organizer
Twitterholics and Twiddicts beware: there’s a new ad network in town, and it’s aiming for you!
Steve Rubel just penned a piece on Adjix, a new URL shortening service slash advertising network that turns your shortened links into ad-supported destinations. The service is currently in beta - we wouldn’t have it any other way - and is limited to the United Stated for the time being.
The company behind it, SMS Pal, also put out an open API to play with.
Here’s how it works:
People who shorten links, called linkers, can earn money when using Adjix. Adjix places an ad at the top of each page, when a link is shortened, without altering the orginal content. Advertisers can launch online ad campaigns on Adjix and be up and running in minutes.
For example, the following link was shortened using Adjix. Note the Adjix ads streaming into the top of page: http://adjix.com/2z
Hold your horses, it won’t make you wealthy:
Linkers earn $0.10/1000 unique link views (10 cents CPM per unique link impressions) and $0.20 for each valid, unique, click-through. In other words, Linkers receive $0.0001/link impression and $0.20/ad click-through. Advertisers can place ads for $0.35 per 1000 ad impressions (35 cents CPM for ad impressions) and $0.75 per valid click-through.
Think of it this way: is TinyURL or bit.ly paying you anything while you’re out there spoiling all your followers with cool links?
(By the way, here’s me on Twitter. I promise not to make me money of your back when you click on stuff I share.)
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By Haas on Aug 22, 2008
I will stop following enyone who spams me…
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By Oliver Taco on Aug 22, 2008
Spam? Why is everything someone doesn’t like spam?
Look, twitter desperately needs to monetize and this is an example of a *service* they could implement that would at least start bringing something in the door.
IOW, they could do this to every single twitted link with little or no impact on users - even the ones clicking link.
-OT
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By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Aug 22, 2008
I never understood how Tinyurl and the other URL shorteners (is that a word?) planned to make money. This seems a logical step…
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By Pointless Inc. on Aug 23, 2008
Can’t wait for this profitable url shortener to be implemented into Twitterfeed.
By the way, haven’t you heared of http://Ucash.in ?
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By BoB on Aug 23, 2008
Maybe, just maybe, twitter users don’t want to be monetized. Maybe, those that try will always be labeled as spammers by users that just don’t see Twitter as a way for you to make money out of.
Definitely, those that try to make money by out and out spam such as Adjix will lose their readers and respect. Maybe, just maybe, it simply isn’t worth the risk.
But hey, if you’re the sort of person that thinks it is all great stuff, then go ahead. Twitter won’t miss your sort when your followers fall to zero.
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By Tiam on Oct 22, 2008
Keep it real.
Play games for money.
Watch this half minute clip to see how you can make
money by playing games everyday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZdDkc0uK4o
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