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Here’s a Quick Way to Make Money from Twitter using Amazon Associates

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 01:28 PM PST

Amazon Associates introduced a Share on Twitter feature to allow members to share product links via Twitter, with their affiliate id embedded. Members will earn referral money if their Twitter followers buy the product via the link.

Here I show you how to make money using the Amazon Associates’ “Share on Twitter” feature. It is as easy as 1-2-3!

Wait! you need to be a member of Amazon Associates. Registration is free. Of course, you must be a Twitter user too!

Got both accounts? Great! Read on for the tutorial.

  1. Login your Amazon Associates account, activate the “Site Stripe“. Then, visit any Amazon.com product page. You will get the “Site Stripe” with a “Share on Twitter” link in it.

    Amazon.com Site Stripe with
    Amazon.com Site Stripe with “Share on Twitter” link

  2. Click on the “Share on Twitter” link. A new window will open and load the Twitter homepage with Amazon-generated message pre populated (you can edit it, of course).

    A bit.ly shorturl link (with your affiliate id embedded) is appended to the end of the message.


    one of the Amazon.com “Share on Twitter” message format

    As far as I discovered, the pre populated Twitter message has a few different formats:

    Check out this Amazon deal: ‘[product name]‘ by [author] [link]

    Great deal on “[product name]” by [author] [link]

    Just saw this on Amazon: ‘[product name]‘ by [author] for [price] [link]

    The message format are chosen randomly. You can try to click on the “Share on Twitter” link on the Site Stripe for a few more times to get a different version.

  3. When you are happy with the Twitter message. Click on the Twitter “Update” button. Then, pray that your Twitter follower will follow the link and buy the product.

Yes, only 3 steps to make money using Amazon Associates’ Share on Twitter link. Told you it is as easy as 1-2-3, aren’t I? ;)

My two cents

I am member of Amazon Associates for years. I use the commission earned to buy books on Amazon.com. Meaning, I get FREE books from Amazon.com!

With the new “Share with Twitter” feature, you can now recommend a great product with friends and, at the same time, stand a chance to make some money.

Highly recommended!

*Have you found other ways to make money from Twitter?

P.S. Follow me at @liewcf

7 Ways to Identify a Twitter Spammer

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 03:46 AM PST

I told you to use TwitBlock to spot and block Twitter spammers from your Twitter followers. But how do you identify a Twitter spammer? Here are a few tips to help you.

Generally, to identify a Twitter spammer, we look at the user’s avatar icon, user name, number of followers, number of following, number of tweets, tweets pattern.

A Twitter user is probably a spammer, if it matches more than 1 of the following:

  1. their profiles are using default Twitter avatar OR using a sexy pic as avatar.
  2. their names are ended with numeric, example: david567
  3. they are following many other Twitter users but only has few followers.
  4. they have no update or few updates with links.
  5. their Twitter updates contains repeated tweets with link.
  6. their Twitter updates are published using ONLY Twitter API.
  7. they show you how to “make money overnight”.

Once you found a Twitter spammer, please report it to Twitter (read my previous blog post: How to report a Twitter spammer?).

Follow me at @liewcf (I am NOT a spammer!)

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*Any tips you want to add to the list? Please share with us in the comment.