It may sound a bit odd to make pas­sive income through Twit­ter but there are peo­ple doing it already. Whether they’re tweet­ing affil­i­ate links or using it as a mar­ket­ing tool to pro­mote their online busi­ness, Twit­ter is gain­ing in pop­u­lar­ity as a busi­ness means.

If you’re inter­ested in using Twit­ter, here are a few great ideas to get you going on your pas­sive income.

50 Twit­ter Tools and Tuto­ri­als For Design­ers and Developers

By Paul Andrew from Smash­ing Magazine

Twit­ter appears on innu­mer­able per­sonal and pro­fes­sional web­sites nowa­days, whether it is a sim­ple “Fol­low me” badge in the header or a dis­play of the author’s lat­est tweets in the side­bar. No longer a fad, Twit­ter is now a neces­sity for every web­site, not just for shar­ing your thoughts and keep­ing in touch with peo­ple, but also for mar­ket­ing, adver­tis­ing and even search­ing. But you may be won­der­ing, How can I make Twit­ter work the way I want on my website?

Below, we present Twit­ter Web Designer and Devel­oper Tool­box, API and Tuto­ri­als, a series of tuto­ri­als, links, ref­er­ences, libraries and plug-ins that will help you do every­thing you’ve always wanted to do with Twitter.

Twit­ter Devel­op­ment Links

Twit­ter Tech­nol­ogy Blog
If you’re writ­ing an appli­ca­tion for the Twit­ter API or just curi­ous about the code, tools and prac­tices, this blog has some­thing for you.

Twit­ter API Wiki home page
Down­load the Twit­ter API here, and it’s also a great ref­er­ence for developers.

Twit­ter API Announce­ments — Google Groups
This web­site is updated only when changes to the Twit­ter API are released or there is a pend­ing release.

Twit­ter Devel­op­ment Talk — Google Groups
Dis­cus­sion about the devel­op­ment and use of the Twit­ter API

Fol­low Twit­ter Devel­op­ment via Twit­ter
Keep up to date with all news via Twitter.

Intro­duc­tion to the Twit­ter API

Twit­ter API for Dum­mies
This is an easy-to-follow tuto­r­ial with sev­eral exam­ples based on dif­fer­ent Web tech­nolo­gies. It has just enough for you to start your own Twit­ter project.

Using the Twit­ter API
This is an excel­lent intro­duc­tion to using the Twit­ter API. The API offers many dif­fer­ent ways to con­nect to your details includ­ing XML, JSON, Atom and RSS. This tuto­r­ial uses XML, PHP and cURL.

Get Started With the Twit­ter API
If you’re look­ing to try out an API for the first time, Twitter’s is a great one to start with. Its API is sim­ple and easy to use. The only thing to keep in mind is that Twit­ter lim­its you to 70 requests per 60-minute inter­vals, so remem­ber to cache or oth­er­wise store your results.

Get­ting Started with the Twit­ter API
Twitter’s API lets you read and write Twit­ter mes­sages with min­i­mal cod­ing in nearly any pro­gram­ming lan­guage. In fact, you can use this API with­out doing any pro­gram­ming. A slightly more advanced tuto­r­ial than the pre­vi­ous three.

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