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Advertising on Twitter with Twittad

twittadTwittAd was formed to give Twitter users and advertisers the opportunity to meet for product placement & website promotion on a Twitter user profile.

Plenty of people are developing ideas for monetizing Twitter, but few seem viable. Twittad appears to offer a financial solution to prolific twittererers.

You will get paid every hour you serve the ad. A Virtual Account balance will be calculated and once the advertisers ad expires the money is released into your Real Account balance.

The system breaks down like this for Twitter users:

  1. Post Twitter account for advertisers to purchase
  2. Select your duration & price
  3. Wait for advertiser to purchase
  4. Accept or Deny the proposed ad within 48 hours of purchase
  5. If you accept the ad we will use the Twitter API to upload the ad to your Twitter profile
  6. 1-Tweet Promo Sent
  7. At the end of the tenure Final Tweet Sent

At the end of the day is this a viable solution?

I lean towards the NO, for these reasons:

  1. Only 1 testimonial
  2. I can’t keep my current kickass background @jordannilsen
  3. No analytics or tracking
  4. Limited functionality
  5. Non-dynamic ads are not-so-hot

Posted in: All Posts, Twitter on December 29, 2008 by jordan.

3 Responses to “Advertising on Twitter with Twittad”

  1. Jordan,

    Thank-you for writing about Twittad.com. As the Founder allow me to give just a brief response. The reasons you give towards leaning “no” on this idea are completely valid. We are in the process of working very hard on getting a solution to all those points you mention, especially the analytics and tracking.

    We have had some recent advertisers that have done a amazing job of going through the process of ad placement through Twittad. I invite you to take a look at our blog http://www.twittad.com/blog.

    Regards,
    James Eliason
    Founder/CEO Twittad.com

  2. Jordan says:

    James,

    As a Twitter-user, and someone relying on ad-revenue to buy my powdered milk and cheerios, I’m endebted to your efforts to progress social marketing tools.

    I will continue following your updates at http://www.twittad.com/blog, and I’m looking forward to the continued development of Twittads.

    Let me know if there’s anyway I can help your development efforts,

    -jordan-

  3. Hi Jordan,

    As a follow up, please check out a recent article written about Twittad on Microblink.com. This article lays out our newest features that will be live in a few weeks.

    http://microblink.com/go/2478

    Regards,
    James

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