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It would take a lot more than 280 characters to cover all the ways selling on Twitter is different from selling on Facebook or Instagram.
\nThe “blue bird” has long been a dark horse among social media marketing channels.
\nWhile brands like @Wendys have famously managed to make it work for awareness, PR, and community building, Twitter was mostly built for conversations, not conversions.
\nThat’s no longer the case, with new social commerce features that take the friction out of selling your products on Twitter.
\nWhether you have a Twitter following you want to monetize with a product, or you think your product’s target audience is on Twitter, here’s how to turn Twitter into a sales channel by harnessing its unique strengths.
\nStart selling on Twitter
\nMake your Twitter profile shoppable
\nInstall the Twitter sales channel and start featuring your products on your profile with a Shop Spotlight or Twitter Shop. Currently available only to US-based merchants selling physical products.
\nInstall Twitter sales channel
\nWith 436 million monthly active users, Twitter’s user base on the surface pales in comparison to TikTok or Facebook, both of which exceed a billion.
\nYet Twitter’s influence on culture and politics can’t be ignored when screenshots of tweets circulate on Reddit and Instagram, and world leaders, journalists, investors, founders, and industry thought leaders use the platform to share ideas, connect with others, and engage in discourse.
\nIt may have fewer users and less shopping intent than social giant Instagram, but in exchange, you can:
\nIn fact, it’s for these reasons you’ll find Shopify is very active on Twitter 😉.
\nYou can sell almost anything on Twitter that you’d be able to sell on other social media channels, including:
\nOr some combination of all of the above—as long as you can build a community around your Twitter presence.
\nA better question is: What tends to sell well on Twitter?
\nProductivity, wellness, humor/memes, technology, and business are popular niches given Twitter’s big focus on sharing ideas, laughs, and self-improvement tips and journeys.
\nVisualize Value, a community-driven business started by former advertising industry creative Jack Butcher, is a masterclass in making money on Twitter, with a diversified offering of physical products, digital templates, courses, and consulting services. Butcher uses the platform to bridge the gap between his personal brand and his business to help knowledge workers divorce their time from their money.
\nAmanda Goetz, who owns House of Wise, a luxury CBD and wellness brand, is also active on Twitter and has even used the platform to get her products in the hands of tennis superstar Serena Williams.
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WholesomeMemes amasses over a million followers on Twitter by taking popular memes and giving them a wholesome spin. Now the account has an online apparel store with a portion of profits going to charity.
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Effectively monetizing Twitter as a sales channel means setting up your profile to convert profile visitors into sales, driving attention to your profile, and nurturing relationships between yourself and members of your community.
\nLet’s break down some of the actions you can take to start making sales on Twitter.
\nMarketing on Twitter requires regular monitoring and manual work. You can’t just tweet and hope the algorithm serves your post to the right audience. You’ll be spending most of your time going to where the right conversations are.
\nYou can get the most out of that effort, however, by optimizing your profile to make every profile visit count.
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Nail these 5 key elements of your Twitter profile to amplify the impact of the rest of the tactics in this guide:
\nIf you have a compatible online store, Twitter Shopping can help put your products front and center for profile visitors by using the mobile app in one of two ways:
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Luckily, if you’re using Shopify, it’s as simple as installing the Twitter sales channel and syncing your products.
\nIn order to use the Twitter sales channel at this time, you must be based in the US, sell physical products, and switch your account to a free Twitter Professional Account. If you meet those requirements, all you have to do is:
\nFrom there, you can manage the products you want to feature from within Shopify.
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The search bar is one of the most underrated features on Twitter.
\nA common mistake brands will make on Twitter—and why so many write it off—is taking a broadcast-only approach to the platform.
\nAlmost 50% of Twitter users are lurkers who tweet less than five times a month, but the ones who participate on Twitter share their thoughts and updates … kind of flippantly. It’s considered a “micro-blogging” site after all.
\nThat’s great for brands, since Twitter has tools that few other social media sites have for monitoring the conversations that matter most to you, making it easy to engage with tweets that mention:
\nTwitter’s advanced search lets you include or exclude specific keywords, user accounts, hashtags, and time frames.
\nLet’s say I sell hot sauce. All I have to do is run a search for “best hot sauce” to find tweets from users I can follow or engage with. Better yet, if the tweet is fresh and still gaining traction, I can leave a clever or helpful reply that may earn a customer, a follower, or profile visits.
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This can be a manual and time-consuming process, but depending on what you sell and who your target customer is, you may consider investing in a social listening tool to monitor multiple conversations at once or hiring a community manager to own the strategy to grow your Twitter following and engage with prospective customers.
\nJust remember: The key to effective social selling is to focus on being helpful, funny, or generous—to provide value—and let your profile do the actual selling for the most part.
\n4. Build Twitter Lists of potential customers and the people who influence them
\nLists are another underused Twitter feature.
\nWith Lists, you can create curated feeds of tweets from a select group of users. This might not seem all that helpful for selling products until you realize it allows you to create lists based on your best customers, competitors, prospective customers, potential influencers and affiliates, or brands you want to become friends with.
\nIf I’m selling a product in the productivity niche, let’s say templates I built for the project management software Notion, I might create a private Twitter List that lets me monitor key productivity experts who regularly tweet about Notion.
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I can then retweet or reply to their tweets and participate in their communities, hopefully attracting a few people to my own.
\nIf there’s a specific person you know your customers follow, you can even turn on post notifications on the mobile app by hitting the bell icon after following them, to get notified whenever they tweet.
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Like all social media channels, Twitter has its own advertising platform you can use to pay to reach customers.
\nWhat works on other platforms may not work here though, as Twitter ads are typically viewed as better for brand building than direct response conversion campaigns.
\nIf you plan on experimenting with Twitter ads, it may be better to focus on campaign objectives that generate awareness, followers, or engagement instead of direct conversions. You can then let your optimized profile do the converting for people who visit it or follow but aren’t ready to buy yet.
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Here are some tips for getting the most out of your Twitter ads:
\nThis Twitter ad from Apple promoting the launch of its new MacBook Air is clearly focused on awareness first, with all essential details upfront, from feature set to price. Twitter moves fast, so you need to communicate faster.
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If Reddit is the front page of the internet, Twitter is often considered its public square.
\nTreat it like Instagram and Facebook, where the focus is on scaling reach and sales, and you won’t find much traction. But take it for what it is and you’ll have better luck selling your products.
\nTwitter is where conversations happen out in the open for anyone to jump in and participate. The best way to sell on Twitter is to participate as well, use your voice, and treat it like a big party where you can meet new people who might need your products too.
\nYes, you can make money on Twitter by selling products and services. While Twitter isn’t as easy to scale as other channels for product sales, you can leverage it in direct and indirect ways to generate sales.
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A new AI service for “parsing” music tracks.
\nThe Mikrotakt neural engine can split any track into vocals, instrumentals, bass, drums, and other audio tracks.
\nIn addition, you can upscale vocal tracks to clean up the voice and adjust the pitch. This feature is ideal for musicians and content makers.
\nThe new Chinese model DeepSeek-V3 becomes a competitor to ChatGPT:
\n– registration requires only your email and password
\n– the neural is quite fast: answers are generated in seconds
\n– Thinking mode, where AI turns into an academic on any topic
\n– the model can read diagrams and generate any texts
\n– files of different sizes can be uploaded
\n– the neuron is good at working with code
\n– absolutely free
\nHailuo AI from China can clone any voice without censorship in a few seconds. Its library includes more than 300 voices in different languages and intonations. The model also allows for full customization: you can change the tone, speed, and timbre and add sound effects.
\nThe Chinese have released a worthy competitor to ChatGPT.
\nThe Qwen2.5-Plus chatbot provides accurate answers, can read documents and images, and is completely free of charge.
\nKrea allows rotating models in its “Photoshop”
\nKrea developers have come up with an incredible feature for their neuro-Photoshop: you can drop any object and edit its position in 3D space.
\nThe Upscayl neuron has received a 16x upscale, so now it can save even the most hopeless photos. The download is free.
\nThe Wegic neural network has become even cooler.
\nNow websites are generated in seconds, and all your edits can be made with simple queries.
\nYou just throw in a promo and you have a perfectly(?) designed website.
\nA working AI meme generator.
\nThe Brainrot neuron follows trends, selects relevant images, and produces memes that are even funny to read. And all this is free.
\nGoogle has released a top free guide to AI agents.
\nIt contains everything: basic knowledge, tools, architecture, training methods, and a step-by-step recipe for creating agents on LangChain and LangGraph.
\nIt is a cool service for learning languages with an AI interlocutor.
\nThe Lingocat neuron imitates the native speaker, gives feedback, and has tasks to improve skills. And all this is free of charge.
\nThe free neural from the Chinese outperforms(?) ChatGPT.
\nA new model called R1 has been released that outperforms the best version of ChatGPT. R1 is twice as powerful as the previous version and it has literally everything you need: programming, math, rewriting, and everything else. It’s worth noting that if you look at the graph of how it “outperforms”, it doesn’t encourage you to switch from OpenAI to the Chinese neural.
\nUniversal AI photo editor.
\nGenerating, replacing, or deleting details, styling, changing the background, and upscaling – and this is not the whole list of functions of the new and free Dzine neural.
\nPrompt generator for ChatGPT
\nPromptEngine works according to the official recommendations of OpenAI. The service also supports other language models: Claude, Gemini, LLama, and Mistral, which can be selected from a list.
\nOpenAI President showed a feature for the o1 model.
\nAccording to Greg Brockman, the o1 model works a bit differently than other types of AI, and to achieve high performance, you need to follow a certain plan in writing promos:
\nthe goal, response format, warning, and context.
\n(The Anatomy of an o1 Prompt attached an example image)
\nChatGPT can now write first.
\nThe neuron will remind you of important things like a real assistant. For example, in the morning, it can provide a ready-made excuse for being late for work, and in the evening, a convincing explanation for a deadline shift.
\nSo far, only 10 regular tasks are available, but by the end of the week, all paid users will receive the new feature.
\nOpenAI offers free tokens for ChatGPT.
\nHowever, there is a caveat: in exchange, they ask for permission to use your promos to train models.
\nThe offer lasts until the end of February. Pro users can get up to 1 million tokens per day, and mini-version users can get up to 10 million!
\nTrump has canceled Biden’s decree on control over AI development.
\nThe document, signed in 2023, required developers to share test results with the government to reduce risks. However, Republicans insisted that this restricted freedom of speech and hindered progress. Now, AI development is unrestricted again.
\nChina will organize a competition between robots and humans
\nIn April, China will host the world’s first half marathon where people will compete with robots. The race will involve 12,000 runners and dozens of androids. Technology versus biology is a real race of the era.
\nAI tokens soar after the Stargate project announcement.
\nOn January 23, Trump announced a $500 billion investment from the private sector in the development of AI infrastructure in the United States. As part of this project, OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle will create a joint venture called Stargate. Immediately after this announcement, the AI and big data token market showed significant growth:
\n– AI16Z and AI Rig Complex (ARC) grew by 30% per day
\n– GRIFFAIN and ZEREBRO tokens doubled in price
\n– MetamonkeyAi (MMAI) showed an increase of 152.25%
\n– FLock.io (FLOCK) – by 57%
\nThe smartest o3-mini model will be free!
\nSam Altman said that this neural will be able to solve complex problems in programming, math, and data analysis – all for free.
\nFeatures of o3-mini:
\n– advanced analytical abilities
\n– accelerated data processing speed
\n– ease of use for everyone
\nThe release is planned for the near future.
\nOracle founder supports AI totalitarianism
\nBillionaire Larry Ellison stated that the total surveillance system with artificial intelligence based on cameras, drones, and police recorders will force citizens to “behave in the best way possible”.
\nOracle has recently entered into a partnership with OpenAI and Softbank. Digital dystopia is becoming a reality.
\nThe first Chinese base for robot training was opened in Shanghai
\nThey will learn to help around the house, play football, and assemble cars.
\nThe data obtained in the process will be shared with various companies.
\nCurrently, the center has more than 100 androids and plans to expand to a thousand by 2027.
\nChatGPT can now create any kind of application – a new Canvas feature has been released that runs the code right in the browser.
\n– There are no limits to ideas – we invent and ask AI to draw up a detailed project description.
\n– Copy and paste the request into the chat with the neuron, but add the “/canvas” command at the end.
\n– AI will produce a fully working application in React and HTML in a second – you can test it right away!
\n– There are no limits or restrictions – you can even clone YouTube in your browser.
\nThe feature is free.
\nTop 5 promos for working with any amount of information – the neural will squeeze out all the “water” from the source and give you only concise, verified facts:
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