Micro-Payments for the Twitter Crowd

While Twitter continues to figure out ways to monetize its fast growing, highly addictive micro-blogging services another company has found a way to *attempt* to monetize the tweeting crowd.

I was just reading a post on TechCrunch.com, they are reporting that Tinker is launching a professional micro-blogging network.  Tinker is a micro-blogging tracker of sorts. It tracks social network posts containing certain terms and reposts in widgets embedded on blogs and sites.

 The selected "professional micro-bloggers" will be paid a share of ad revenue created by their widgets and Tinker streams. I expect their to be a deluge of requests to be considered a professional blogger. At the end of the day, unless you have a large amount of traffic I see the potential for this to be pretty small, maybe its just the term micro-payments that get me.