The Minority Report

David Barrett seems to be using Twitter to make some cash! Good for him. Here is some of the information that he’s gleaned from his experiments with Adwords and Twitter.

Maybe if he puts out a step-by-step guide, I’ll start using Twitter too. Until then, I’ll keep on trucking with my $0.12/day on Adsense…lol

In other words, the technique I’m using with Twitter not only converts far better than AdWords, it does it way cheaper and is in fact *easier* to use.Quinthar: Twitter is sitting on a goldmine (a David Barrett blog)

So I’ve been doing the twitter stuff for a while and I’ve been liking it, but it doesn’t really scale up by the orders of magnitude I’d like.  It brings in dozens of clicks a day, but I want thousands.

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Naturally, for those thousands of clicks a day I’d go to AdWords. I know I can’t afford that, but I’m curious what it would cost. So I set up a series of keywords and set a small test ad budget, with the thought that I’d instantly be flooded with clicks and my ad budget depleted within minutes, but at least I’d get the data I need.

Days pass, and not a single ad was shown. I check everything, add some more keywords, verify my billing is set up, remove my $2.00/click maximum, and try again. Still nothing.

I’m thinking WTF. So I dig around a bit more and find this keyword estimator and I find some really surprising results:

Even if I threw unlimited money at the problem, I would only get between 86-111 clicks a day, at a cost of $230-380/day. That’s $2.67 – $3.42 per click on average, and still it’s such an insignificant flow of users it’s not even worth the effort.Quinthar: Twitter is sitting on a goldmine (a David Barrett blog)