(Not Quite) Earning A Living On Twitter
The Wall Street Journal:
When 25-year-old Justin Rockwell was laid off from his job as a Web developer last fall, he began scrounging for freelance gigs.
He also found himself spending a lot of time on Twitter, answering Web development problems for fellow Twitterers.
Eventually, Rockwell realized there was a market for his services on Twitter. Now he spends his days trolling the site for people with Web coding problems, offering to help for a fee.
For Rockwell, like most people, Twitter started a personal branding opportunity: “What sparked the idea was just that I wanted to become well known for what I do well.†Rockwell’s expertise is in a method of building Web pages called Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
So he set up his account in February which shows a picture of a superhero wearing a cape. He figured he would just swoop in and fix people’s development problems.
He finds clients by searching [...]
Original post by Rich Whittle and software by Elliott Back
