How to Use Twitter to Save Money

A Tweet a Day May Keep Your Pocketbook Happy and Healthy!

Barb Webb
Twitter.com is a great tool for social networking but did you know it can also be a terrific tool that can be used to save money? Indeed, your savings can rack up fast!

Note: For those not familiar with Twitter: Twitter.com is a free micro-blogging tool that allows the user to send and receive short messages from their computer or mobile phone. The messages sent are called Tweets.

How do you use Twitter.com to save money?

First, set up Twitter.com account for "savings." If you are already using Twitter as a social network, consider setting up a second account dedicated to savings opportunities.

Next, check the blogs you read or frugal living websites you visit to see if they have Twitter accounts and "follow" them on Twitter.

Rather than tracking blogs on RSS or visiting frugal living websites to hunt for deals, coupons, and rebates, you can use Twitter as a one-stop deal-finding friend.

You can also search for Twitter feeds in Twitter by typing in key words like "Coupons" or "Rebates" or "Frugal Living" to find other Twitter accounts that you may not be aware of who are posting up-to-date savings opportunities. You can also follow companies and brands that you use regularly to get the inside scoop on promotions.

With a Twitter savings page, you'll have a one-stop spot filled with short links to all the great deals, coupons, savings, and frugal topics on the web. You'll save oodles of time normally spent searching and be able to snag savings immediately.

Enable Twitter to feed links to your cell phone to keep on top of the savings at work or on the go. You can even add Twitter to your desktop as a continuous feed so that you don't miss a tweet!

Published by Barb Webb

Author/ Freelance writer, Barb Webb is a Paper Crafts Expert, Cost Cutting Expert and one Internet-savvy Mom! In addition to being a Featured Crafting Contributor for Associated Content, Barb is the Paper C...  View profile

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  • Kofic6/29/2010

    We just launched http://www.tweetsignup.com which businesses will use to create community pages - when you join those pages you will get access to all the rewards offered by the communities

  • Elliott6/29/2010

    Use HootSuite and you can set up the different search terms like 'coupons' in individual columns even easier to manage then and you don't need a separate account. If you still want separate accounts it'll display them all on one tab.

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