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Sponsored Tweets, the service which allows twitter users to make money by connecting them with prospective advertisers ( read my earlier coverage in article titled [How-To] Make Money Using Twitter With Sponsored Tweets) has launched its API.

The website mentions following as the description of its API offering

If you operate a site that displays different Twitter users (Klout, WeFollow, Spymaster, etc.), then chances are you might be interested in our API. Our API allows you to query our service to find out if a Twitter user is in our system and, if so, will return you information about them. Our hopes are that you can use this to put a “Sponsor Me” button by those users. This button would link to the users profile page on SponsoredTweets, allowing an Advertiser to hire them. You can earn a portion of the money any new advertisers spend in our system!

What does the launching of API by Sponsored Tweets means for Twitter Services?

Well, it means a lot in terms of generating new revenue for the twitter services ( e.g. Klout). By using the API and displaying a “Sponsor Me” button next to the twitter users, larger twitter based services can earn 5% of whatever the advertise spends on Sponsored Tweets for the next two years.

What does the API support mean for general Twitter users like me?

For general twitter users, looking out for generating some extra cash, it means, your profile can get more exposure and more exposure means more revenue generating opportunity.

If you are planning to get started with using the API, you will first need to be signed up with Sponsored Tweets, you can sign up with Sponsored Tweets by clicking here. Once you have signed up, you will get the API key. You will have to make a call to the API and pass the API key to get the results and display them as your choice. You can read more about the API here.

I have personally been using Sponsored Tweets and in my opinion its a quick and easy way to generate some extra cash through Twitter. Joining Sponsored Tweets is free and as a Twitter user ( read:Publisher), you are no obligation to tweet any message which you are not comfortable with. You have the control about which tweets you accept and which ones you reject. You only need to have a twitter account which is 120 days old and having more than 200 followers gets you opportunities easily.

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Also Read: Find Twitter Lists to Follow Using Listorous

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