Promote Your Site Using Twitter

Tweet famous people

Britney, Shaq, and all the other big twitter names! Be creative! There are a lot of famous people on twitter now with A LOT of followers. If you can somehow get them to tweet back at you then you’ve got a lot of potential traffic hitting your twitter profile.

Use the Twitter API to create an app (i.e. twittercounter)

There is a large market out there for interesting apps & a huge market to profit from it. I saw an interesting stat that mentioned twitter gets roughly 10x more traffic via their API than the actual web service. This is probably the most lucrative point out of the 5. For example, no-one is really doing twitter backgrounds well yet?

Use twitter for new product/website launches

With plenty of followers you can really give a new website/idea a very nice initial boost or get the blogosphere talking. A trend I’ve noticed is that twitter users love useful apps, oh & twitter related apps

Links are masked anyways

All affiliate links get masked through tinyurl anyways, not entirely sure if twitter plans to address this. Hell if they were really smart they could replace all affiliate codes with their own. Did I just come up with the first real revenue idea for Twitter?

Follow thousands of people

Go around and follow as many “tweeters” as humanly possible. If you’re interesting enough a certain percentage will follow you back. Expect 10 – 20% of the people you follow to follow you back. If you’re a hot chick, or your pic is of one, you’ll probably be seeing a higher percentage.