CouponFollow Indexes Coupons Mentioned on Twitter

Maureen Alley
by Maureen Alley 09 Oct, 2009

Businesses, marketers and consumers are quickly learning to leverage Twitter for promotions, discounts and coupons. And a new site, CouponFollow looks to take advantage of this growing trend by indexing coupon codes mentioned on Twitter.

According to the announcement, CouponFollow tracked more than 8,000 promotional codes and more the 27,000 related postings on Twitter. "We are seeing an average of 350 new codes posted a day with about 3-4 times as many related tweets," CouponFollow creater Marc Mezzacca said in the release.

To participate in the program, users connect to CouponFollow, allowing the company to access profiles. Users can search coupons by company, newest, most popular and more. Coupons are ranked by votes which on this site are tweets or retweets - one per Twitter account.