Now this is a neat way to make a few bucks (or a bunch of bucks?) while using twitter. You know that when you input a domain in your tweets, most times twitter will automatically shorten them using bit.ly? And when people click on that short link, all you get is a visitor out of it. What if you could make some money when you shorten a link and use that new link in your tweets?

This new service is called Tweet Bucks and it will shorten links for you and add merchant affiliate links so that when people click on your links you can make some money. You do have to be a twitter user to use this service.

I just joined myself and have yet to use the service, but I will be using it heavily for 30 days to test it out and see how much I make. I would advise you to do the same, test it and try it out. You do get $5.00 added to your account when you register, so that should be a good start on making some money. There is a $25.00 minimum payout via paypal and each month you hit this minimum, they pay out. Rolling over to the next month any amount that you have in your account that has yet to be paid out via the minimum amount. Oh, plus you can make a 10% referral fee! You can make 10% on your referral earnings each month deposited to your account. Well worth it to promote and get referrals now.

Go to Tweet Bucks now and register. Free to do so and like I said, $5.00 put into your account to get you started. How long they will give out the $5.00 they do not say, but since this is beta, I am sure that will not last long.