(Don’t) Make Money From Twitter and (Waste Your Time) Have Fun

EDIT: Well, the quoted part below is what this post originally said. I am editing it to advise you all to stay away from MyLikes. If you earn too much, or gain too many referrals in their contests they will delete you. Not only did they do that to me, but they also now refuse to reply to any emails. I use to have no problem in getting replies from them, usually got a response within 10 minutes! I have sent about 5 since I was banned (which by the way, was my third time. The first two times they quoted a reason which was not true.) and have yet to get a reply.

What are your thoughts on MyLikes?

Quoted portion:

“Yes, you heard the title right! You can make money from Twitter AND have fun at the same time! All you really do is post things to your Twitter account that interest you. When people click the links, you profit. MyLikes is the service that runs this. Simply sign up, search for things you like and post them to your Twitter account!

Check it out, leave me a comment with what you think about it. Personally I like it better than all the other networks to make money from Twitter.

Sign up now!“

How It All Started – Part 2

Click here to read part 1

This is a continuation of part 1…

Before I continue, I just want it to be known that I will not write about and list every website I own, for obvious reasons. Although there are some I do not list, the methods used in them will be discussed in future posts.

Back in the summer of 2008, me and my brother decided to start up our own link shortening service. At this time I was entering grade 12. I had big dreams with this, create a link shortening service, make a framed bar on top and toss in some ads. Then spread the site around and start making thousands of dollars. Yeah, I was inexperienced at the time and was not fully sure how all this worked. At this time I didn’t even have any coding experience, we bought the script! That site is still up and can be found here: http://link-shrink.com. The site gets 100+ unique hits a day, where some days it exceeds 1000. It makes enough a month to keep the domain going as well as cover some hosting.
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