Tweets into dollars- Click here http://bit.ly/jSwwjh for full article

Tweets into dollars- Click here http://bit.ly/jSwwjh for full article

In 140 characters or less, Twitter users are making real money. With a PayPal account and something interesting to say, people are able to turn the micro-blogging service into a micro-money machine.

The little blue bird is delivering green paper to people who use it properly.

Sell products

If you understand the power of advertising and know how to maximize your words, the space Twitter provides is more than enough. Use tweets to tell customers and followers what you are selling. If the product is new or on sale, make sure they know about it. If a price changes, announce it.

There are a lot of people that will visit your website or company if they only knew about it or were reminded. Twitter is a perfect way to do that.

You don’t need to bludgeon your followers with sales tweets. If every 10th or 20th tweet is a sale, they won’t notice it amongst the jovial, miscellaneous announcements.

You don’t have to be direct, either. If you are selling a product, do it subtly: “Just played a hard game of ball. Think I’ll have an ice cold ____.”

Find leads

Leads are the lifeline of businesspeople. They are clues you follow in order to get from a hunch to a sale. With Twitter’s search function, lead generation is made easy.

People often go on Twitter to complain about something that's bothering them. And complaints are really just backwards leads. “I can’t find a car” is not a complaint to a car salesman, it’s a lead.

Pay attention to the things people are bickering about on Twitter. Random musings could end up being leads for you. But act quickly. A lead not acted on, vanishes.

Charge for messages

If what you have to say is catchy, timely, important or news worthy, you can get away with charging your followers. A subscription-based service sounds like a far stretch, but there is almost no price to high to learn something important.

Celebrities, authors, newspapers and journalists can cash in on the charge-for-messages method if they present substantive information to their followers, information that adds surprise and value to their lives.

Getting the most out of Twitter

Twitter, when coupled with value-adding content and a PayPal account, can translate into extra cash. For businesses looking to up their revenue, using Twitter just makes sense.