Twitter is the latest goldmine for people and companies who aim to reach millions of people with ease and make considerable amount of money online. Eventhough Twitter is quite popular and easy to join, making serious money still depends on choosing correct methods and your efforts. Here, I will briefly review top rated books written about how to make money online with Twitter. Since Twitter is a permanently evolving platform, I have especially chosen new up-to-date books in my list.

99 is an attractive number for human mind. So, the editors of popular entrepreneurship blog Geekpreneur decided to use this and most importantly they achieve to give what they promise in their Twitter business book. 99 proven Twitter techniques. In this book, you will read real case studies of people who sell their books on Twitter, programmers who give live help to other fellow followers and make income of this, translators who work part-time on Twitter and so on.The best part of this Twitter make money online book is that it is not just a compilation of theoretical ideas. Every method is explained in detail in its seperate section and it is shown how to start and implement it to the fullest. Each method is linked to an actual Twitter account. So, you will understand how a certain method is applied in Twitter microblogging system.

Authored by Social Media Expert Joel Comm, Twitter Power book fast begins to explain real usage of Twitter after a brief introduction what Twitter is, registration, designing background screen etc. Building a community, not a big line of sheep followers

• How to build a niche following?
  
• Quantity of Quality of followers?
  
• How to tweet effectively without spam?
  
• Joining conversations and being interesting?
  
• How to locate your top followers, admirers and leverage their effect power?
  
• Branding with Twitter?
• Best Third Party Twitter Applications

After a fast introduction to Twitter microblogging ecosystem including its history, creative uses of Twitter, the author directly enters into Twitter's most useful application areas. All applications have source code to explore in later chapters. For example, if you want to learn how to develop an application which auto tweets from RSS sources in a defined period or get Twitter alerts on selected keywords, you will like this book. After reading web programming basics using CSS, PHP and MySQL, each Twitter API element is explained with samples. After reading this book, it is certain that you can fast build and publish your Twitter powered database driven web application.

Written by famous Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein, Twitter Book shows the best tips around the strategy to achieve and sustain Twitter power user position. For example, they well explain why automating RSS feeds to twitter is not a nice idea and cuts the personal communication, the essence of Twitter actually. The main subjects in Twitter success are great communications and sharing useful information. You will read expert tips and tricks to achieve these. If you are planning to use Twitter as a business tool, read the whole chapter dedicated to pointing trends in business.

This book will be essentially helpful to new or inexperienced Twitter users. The following index of chapters will give enough idea what about this elementary Twitter book is.

1. How do I get started with Twitter?
   
2. Customizing Twitter Profile and Background
3. How do I send Twitter updates?
4. How do I follow other Twitter users?
5. Using Twitter on Mobile Phones
6. Finding useful stuff on Twitter
7. Displaying Twitter Feed and Other Badges
8. Leveraging Twitter to Next Level
9. Extending Twitter Power with Applications and Tools