Before you begin this process, you will need to have a previously created and approved Google AdSense account. If you don’t have one yet, go here to sign-up.
First, locate your Twitter RSS feed. Everyone with a Twitter account has their own unique RSS feed. Your Twitter RSS feed is located at the bottom of your UPDATES page (i.e. http://www.twitter.com/YourTwitterName) just above the footer.
You do not have to be logged-in to Twitter to subscribe to someone’s RSS feed. In addition, you can subscribe to someone’s Twitter RSS feed without following that person.
Copy your Twitter RSS feed URL. For example, mine is http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/14201151.rss
Go to http://feedburner.google.com and sign-in using your google account credentials.
After signing in you will want to “burn” your Twitter RSS feed.
Once you have finished “burning” your Twitter RSS feed, login to your Adsense account. Under the “Adsense Setup” tab, you will want to click “AdSense for Feeds.”
Now you can create the ad unit for your feed. You don’t have to create a separate channel, one will be created automatically for you. To see how the ads are delivered, you can subscribe to my Twitter RSS feed by clicking here
Note: If you have previously burned your Twitter feed using Feedburner, you will need to migrate your Feedburner feed to you Google account.
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Great idea. Sadly, the new Google-ized Feedburner keeps rejecting my twitter feed, even though the feedvalidator says it’s OK. I don’t suppose you’ve encountered this problem, have you?