As the holiday shopping season approaches, more consumers are looking for online coupons to provide discounts. In fact, Google Insights for Search indicates that searches for coupons and promo codes are steadily growing with 68% of consumers reporting that they plan take advantage of coupons this season. Free coupon site DealTaker is making it easier for consumers to find coupons on Twitter via a Tweet command @couponbot.
Here’s how it works. You send a Tweet to @CouponBot with a specific store name (@CouponBot BestBuy). DealTaker calls on an army of Twitter agents to search thousands of coupons in the DealTaker database and return links to the most current coupons to you via an @reply (not a DM). The links could be from DealMaker or the retailer’s site and you will receive a maximum of ten @replies. And Users do not have to follow DealTaker to use @CouponBot.
CouponBot’s model is compelling because it provides an alternative to searching on both Twitter and Google for coupon codes. Twitter is home to other coupon sites including Coupon Tweet and CheapTweet. Plus, plenty of retailers like Dell and BestBuy also offer coupons and specials on their Twitter streams.
Reminds me of those IRC bots I used to download MP3s from back in the day… /dcc chat anyone?
Mike, that’s what I was thinking. It’s pretty cool and you could probably tie in other databases to Twitter like this.
Business owners can use a service like Offeretti.com to get their offers out on twitter/facebook. Offeretti.com also has a twitter response through Direct Messages. If you send @offeretti help message it responds with the format for DM responses.
Sure you can follow via twitter, but the site is not even close to others like http://www.dealtherapy.com in the amount of coupons and stores covered
It is too bad that you only have <10,000 monthly visitors compared to DealTakers 300k+.
Oooh. Sick burn.
Nice! Now you can only hope that the offers are valid that they send back. I’ve found that a lot of coupon sites list expired coupons which is frustrating.
yup.. that is the frustrating part. trying out all coupons and ultimately finding out that it is invalid.
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.. but hey.. that is a valid problem we are trying to solve.