How to Raise Money on Twitter With Tipjoy
Tipjoy is a well-known online micropayment app that allows you to collect small online donations for various causes from your blog or website. It can now be integrated with Twitter to both give money online and to get money online. Here is how to use it.
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Instructions
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Before you begin, it's a good idea to open a new Twitter account just for the fund raising project you have in mind. Give a name reflecting the goal such as @charitywater.
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Set up a page on your blog or website explaining what the fundraiser is all about and what the money will be used for.
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Go to the Tipjoy homepage. There's a very obvious box for Twitter users to get started.
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Tipjoy will generate some code for you that you can add to your page as a widget. This widget will do two things: collect money and tweet about each donation. You can customize this widget on the Tipjoy Twitter Tools page.
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When you tweet about the fundraising project, use a url shortener for your page with the collection widget, so there will be plenty of characters available for retweeting.
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Tips & Warnings
Tipjoy can also be used to charge small fees for various things like premium content on your website.
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Comments
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jfargo
Aug 06, 2009
I've never heard of Tipjoy. I'll have to check it out! 5* -
Ana Villaronga
May 07, 2009
Great idea and thanks! This will help me with my clean river cause!5*R
