Dell made a cool $1 million over the holidays by alerting Twitter users to sale items. Now Felipe Coimbra, the developer who gave us twtpoll, twttrip and twtvite, is launching twtQpon, a Twitter coupon creator for businesses to roll out their Twitter marketing strategy. Not a bad idea, when retailers are trying desperately to find a way to harness the outreach power of Twitter. Others retail operations are following Dell’s lead by using Twitter to spread the word on sales and discounts. CheapTweet.com even breaks down all these sales by product.
You create an coupon on the twtQpon site, and then, like the developer’s other apps, micro-message with a tiny URL on Twitter or Facebook. The link takes people to back to the advertised website to redeem the coupon.
Here’s a sample:
A great ap for consumers too!
Let’s see how well this goes.
Thanks for the heads up on @twtapps. We’ve been using Twitter similarly for months now for all our promotions, news and general transparency.
That’s pretty awesome. I heard Dell was offering coupons on Twitter, but let’s see if others follow suit.
I run CheapTweet and I’m really excited to see twtQpon. We’re a search engine for coupons, sales and deals on Twitter. We’re finding lots of businesses, shop owners, etc that are offering special deals to their followers and the rest of Twitter. This gives them another way to make these offers. It’ll be great to get these on our site as people start to use them. Thanks Felipe.
nice
Yeah… twitter has some great coupons to follow…
I follow:
twitter.com/couponclix
twitter.com/couponsnext
Thank you all for the comments!
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Check that!!! Pretty cool!
We have to take advantage of people putting stuff on sale!!!
For example…Because they are launching Kindle II, now Kindle is at a good sale…
Yet another plug for twitter or an associated app.
And why is this application noteworthy in the scheme of things?
How much does TC staff own in Twitter?
The increase in companies using twitter for coupons and sales makes me wonder how this is impacting other forms of distribution like mobile and text advertising. Everyone has a cell phone, but not everyone has twitter. Thoughts?
@ed- twitter is an ever increasing place for distribution of information and products. This is a fact, and IS the reason twitter will continue to get MORE coverage. Increasing popularity of a new idea = increasing coverage.
What can you reference that supports these assertions of noteworthy demmand for Twitter?
Dell selling $1M of old equipment to people dumb enough to follow the mindless tweats of someone person selling a brand is hardly worth mentioning.
I follow https://twitter...om/coupon_buzz/
Twitter has high traffic. Retailers advertises in places with high traffic if they can get away with it. Why is this a new story? All this mumbo jumbo about distribution strategy is nonsense.
I am often on the lookout for savings on tech gear. I like DealDogs.net because you can get email alerts by category so you only get alerts on what you are looking for. It also includes product videos as well as detailed information about the products.
it is just yet another way to share links via the popular stream. Another example: share your maps via Twitter: http://bigmap.linkstore.ru
Yapta.com just launched a new feed that allows you to track airfares and will alert you when the fare drops so you can recover the difference in price:
http://tinyurl.com/d8sera
Felipe, this looks really cool. We are putting together our own Twitter deal feed with http://www.fyndhawaii.com starting in Hawaii. We are targeting a similar market and we are watching what happens with your apps.