Kivaari, the people your following are promoting products, then your following the wrong people :]
Use some type of targeted search...there are plenty of people on twitter, you just need to find the ones whom are most likely to click your link.
For everyone saying Twitter is dead...
Well not yet it's not. There is some huge money being made there and the reason I quote the reply ABOVE is because it's ALL IN THE FOLLOWING.
For every 100 of your AUTOMATED FOLLOWS to get them to follow you back, I specifically target ONE real follower for a specific niche.
That one REAL FOLLOWER is probably worth at least a couple of hundred of your automated follows and followers..
My nephew has been wanting me to teach him IM for a couple of years now... So I just had him create a Twitter account the other day to get started as it IS the fastest way I know TODAY to start making some money online.
I won't tell you the niche but all I had him do after we built the Twitter page was perform a specialized search for "tight chest" -- then read the actual tweets and if the Twitter user was really experiencing a tight chest, follow them.
Why? Because his Twitter account promotes an affiliate program that will help this user that had a tight chest all day... LOL.
So over the last 2 days, my 15 year old nephew has followed almost 300 Twitter users with "tight chest" and of course several other specific keyword phrases. His 2 day old account now has 179 followers and he's sold 3 products to Twitter users with a "tight chest" -- just under $100.
I'm pretty sure if a 15 year old can do it, anyone can do it.
It's all in WHO you follow... At least for now.
filmy
I agree. When Larry Page (cofounder of Google) was pitching their first investor - before Google was even officially a company - he said something pretty profound. He said "I'm not sure what the revenue model will be - but I can tell you that search is the only time that you tell a computer exactly what you're looking for, and there has to be a way to make money from that".
Well, Twitter is the only time that you tell a computer exactly what you're doing, feeling, or thinking...and to steal a phrase from Mr. Page....there has to be a way to make money from that.
Here's my take on this. Twitter is hugely saturated with marketers and spam. BUT....all that means is that when people tire of all the static, they will simply turn down the volume. They will stop (or not start) following people who they don't actually know, or who don't post tweets that are in some way valuable to the them. The practice of "if I follow you you follow me" will become non-existent. Twitter will build more tools that enable more "walled gardens" within the site that attempt to stop the madness (think Facebook vs. MySpace).
Twitter has something going for it that most over-hyped Internet flameouts don't - a product that grew organically at an amazingly rapid pace. Twitter is also run by some majorly seasoned executives, and they've taken over $55M in startup money from some of the brightest, most well-connected people in tech. Though it's not impossible, I'd be amazed if these people steered the ship into an iceberg with $55M of their cash onboard.
Even if Twitter itself failed, the concept obviously works for people. There would be another company that fixed what Twitter did wrong and would be doing something very similar (maybe "Google Pulse" or something).
Just my 2 cents.
I follow like 400 people on twitter and the follow me of course. But like 75% of them are promoting clickbank products and some other aff networks. Just feels so "wtf , why the hell they would bought some product over my aff link if they're promoting other products with the same network, seriously wtf?".