How to Get Free Stuff on Twitter

Follow the right tweeters, and mind your hashtags
By John Johnson,  Newser Staff
Posted May 8, 2010 3:23 PM CDT
How to Get Free Stuff on Twitter
Twitter is great for free merchandise, if you know how to look.   (AP Photo/Simon Dawson)

More and more marketers are giving away free stuff on Twitter, and Erin Gifford at Mashable offers advice on to cash in. Read the full list here. A sampling:

  • Freebie aggregator sites are popping up. Try http://twitterfreebies.com/
  • Use hashtags. Punch in #freebie or #freebies in the search box to pull up related tweets. "If you use TweetDeck or TweetGrid, set up a column alongside your Twitter stream to monitor for incoming tweets with certain hashtags."
(More Twitter stories.)

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