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Is it possible to be a full-time Twitterer?

Submitted by Robdiana from Google Reader

Dec 11, 2008

Summary

Once it would have been unimaginable to earn an income solely from blogging, but people like Jason Kottke decided to. The latest form of media, one which is becoming increasingly respected, is micro-blogging (especially Twitter) so why is it that we have not seen swarms of full-time Twitterers?

Twitter is a social networking site, so its primary aim is to allow people to stay in contact with one another. This contrasts with blogging, which although is often social is more often or not commentary, advice or Hollywood gossip! The consequence is many Internet personalities use sites like Twitter to complement their other, revenue-generating online activities.

Before we ask if it’s possible to be a full-time Twitterer, we must ask if it’s possible to monetise it. Advertising on the blogosphere has used a wide-range of techniques: text links, contextual adverts, affiliate schemes in addition to more conventional approaches like banners. On Twitter, it’s more limited. Adverts can’t be contextual based on content, as posts are too short to have any ‘real’ content; tex

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Comments (2)

Thomaspower,

Dec 12, 2008

Nope.