The following is an opinion editorial provided by Erik Bowman, Founder and President, Spoink, Inc.: In today’s distressed economic climate both businesses and individuals are looking for new and novel ways to generate income. With microblogs increasingly becoming highly valued sources of information, entertainment, and community networking, now is the time for microbloggers to monetize existing, non-revenue generating activities. Millions of people microblog on a daily basis and receive tens of millions of page views daily that can be an opportunity to earn income through advertising, donations, or sales of products and services.

To assist microbloggers in generating their own income stream, Spoink, the leader in multimedia microblogging, has integrated both PayPal® and Google AdSense, two trusted online service providers, into the Spoink microblogging platform. These new features are free to use and extremely easy to enable.

• Individual Spoink users can now use PayPal to create a donation button within their microblog.
• Business users of Spoink, including celebrities, consultants, coaches and companies of all sizes, can now use PayPal to add a subscription button and product or service sales buttons.
• Both types of users can also insert Google AdSense advertisements into their Spoink accounts.