How to make money from Twitter using Amazon

Amazon has this week sent an email to members of Amazon Associates letting them know about its new Twitter integration feature, which can earn users money!

Basically, when you’re logged into your Associate account, you’ll see a new ‘Share on Twitter’ button on your Site Stripe (a management toolbar along the top of the page). Clicking this button will prepare a tweet complete with a shortened URL to send out of all of your Twitter followers.

It’s interesting because as Amazon clearly notes at the end of its email, you will earn referral money for anyone that clicks on these links and buys a product.

As Twitter users do love to click on links, this feature could actually mean some real money for popular Twitter users with a massive following.

And it’s yet another way that companies — and now even Twitter’s users — are making money from the micro-blogging site, which Twitter won’t see a dime of (presumably, anyway).

A lot of blogs disclose when they’re supplying you with a referral link that they will make money from (though certainly not all of them). But on Twitter, that’s going to be hard for people to do even if they wanted to because of the 140 character limit.

Other social sites, like MySpace, for example, do not allow you to post affiliate links. Twitter, it would seem, has no problem with this. In fact, at least one employee tweeted that he was excited for the launch.