Last night while I was publishing the article I wrote about the 7 Networks That Will Pay You To Tweet On Twitter I started to ponder if it would be at all possible to do something similar with Facebook. Could you earn money by simply updating your Facebook status?

While I did not manage to find any companies willing to pay me to simply post Facebook status updates I did stumble across some rather cool ways to earn an income from Facebook.

Music Blaster

This is perfect if you are a music fan and have a lot of music fans on your friend list. You basically earn money by selling music to your friends. The great thing about this is that even small bands and singers can add their stuff to this application.

You will earn 5% from each transaction.

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Garage Sale

We all know what a garage sale is, here in the UK we know it is more commonly known as a car boot sale. You pretty much sell anything and everything that you have lying around the house that you have no use for any more.

The nice thing about this is that you can sell absolutely anything from unwanted DVDs right through to rare items like custom vinyl banners.

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Ebay

This should not really be a surprise to many. Ebay pretty much has it’s fingers in almost everything on the internet these days. It is simple, you show auctions on your profile that you friends might be interested in and earn commission.

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Lending Club

I left this one till last because I was not sure if I was going to include it or not. But in the end I decided to leave it in the post because it is a rather interesting way to make money from Facebook.

Basically you lend people money through this application and you earn money on the interest on the loan, just like a bank or building society I assume. The legal side is all taken care of by the application so you won’t have to worry about chasing the lendee around the world.

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So there you have it. Have you come across another way that has not been included here? Why not drop a comment and let us know?

I received a private message on the Digital Point message board this afternoon from a member of the board asking me if I could offer them some help in their bid to earn an income from Twitter. I had replied to an earlier post that they created asking for ways to make money online.

I was half way through replying to their private message when I thought that I could benefit my blog with this by turning it into a blog post.

Making money on Twitter is something that a lot of people have been trying to do in the past six months or so. A lot of the people doing it successfully are doing so by affiliate marketing. But for those of us who are not very good at that kind of selling there is another alternative.

There are a number of companies on the market who will offer to pay you for posting tweets on your Twitter accounts. Today I will show you seven networks that will pay you to tweet.

This is one that I have not tried yet. They seem to work in a similar way to Sponsored Tweets in which the advertisers approach you. Was easy enough to sign up with them and they are endorsed by big time bloggers so can’t be all bad.

The best way for me to tell you how I feel about the Magpie network would be to just say that I have been fighting with them, tooth and nail, to get my account unfrozen for about 6 months.

They froze me because I did too many ‘automated’ tweets.

This network I know very little about, apart from the fact that they have plenty of offers, they seem to be directed at American traffic and they only pay if someone clicks on the link in your tweet.

Ads are geo targeted though, most of them are only looking for American traffic so if someone from Germany clicks on one then they won’t be counted as a click. Great if you have a lot of American traffic.

Rev Twt

The first thing that I noticed about the web site is how badly their web site layout comes across. This is normally enough to put people off but if you look past that and dig a little further you will find they are actually a decent outfit. They pay per click and have limits on adverts where they only pay for clicks from people in certain countries to combat fraud.

The only downside is that the adverts are mainly about teeth whitening and other health-related products and not a lot of people seem willing to click on the links as they know they are adverts.

This is the brainchild of those clever folks over at IZEA, the same people behind the behemoth paid blogging network that we know as Pay-Per-Post. Although they are new they are on the rise as they have big bloggers like John Chow raving about earning $7,000 a day using them.

The layout is fantastic and very simple, I think they have about five pages on the admin panel and that is it.

The difference with this network however is that you do not look for ads, the advertisers actually seek you out. There are some guidelines that are in place to help you get more offers and to make sure the advertisers get good Twitter accounts.

- Twitter account must be over 120 days old.
- You should have some Tweets.
- You should have a nice amount of followers.

From what I’ve read the more Tweets and followers you have the more the advertisers will look at you.

I think Twitads went under new management recently because they revamped their site, started showing offers again and increased the amount they pay for posting their ads. Admittedly I’ve only see offers promoting their own network but at around $3-$4 a tweet I’m not arguing.

These are another network that only pay out if someone clicks on a link in your tweet, but the nice thing here is they are not targeted to a few countries.

I have always been keen to try out new advertising networks that come onto the market. Back in 2004 I started to try out PayPopUp. I stopped using them because they were pushing their publishers to use the pop-up ad unit and because they did not care about advertisers promoting malware through their units.

I received an email a couple of months ago informing me that PayPopUp was closing down and moving their publishers over to their new company Infinity Ads. I moved over because I had about $10 with them and they promised to pay out. (a promise that they kept)

I thought I would give them another chance because it had been over five years since I had last used them. Surely they had changed in that time?

The answer is ‘no’.

Within minutes of installing their ad code I was receiving complaints from readers and visitors because they were being served malware, spyware and were even being hijacked and taken to other dodgy sites.

They really had not listened to the complaints from their publishers.

I think I had them on the blog for about four hours before I took them off and deleted the url from my bookmarks.

I’m not saying they are a scam but if you do decide to use them then please try and think of your readers and visitors because they WILL be bombarded with unwanted ads.