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A big list of official stores on CheapTweet
To make it as easy as possible to find the deals you want when you want them, here’s a list of the official pages for some of the most searched-for brands and stores on CheapTweet.
Deal wrap up for June 25, 2010
Here’s a really quick video wrap up (only 1 minute!) of this week’s best deals. These deals are only good for a few a more days, so check them out now. Links are posted below.
- 30% off at Old Navy, ends 6/29
- BOGO entrees at Hard Rock Cafe, ends 6/30
- 20% off in-stock games from EA
- 10% off refrigerators, freezers, washers and dryers at Best Buy, limited time
Check out the CheapTweet DealStream – get a personalized, constantly updated feed of deals just for you.
Announcing the Jewelry Discount House CheapTweet Store!
We’re excited to announce the newest CheapTweet Store – Jewelry Discount House.
Just in time for all the big spring and summer gift-giving holidays (Mother’s Day, graduations, weddings, showers, birthdays), our newest store is the perfect place to find beautiful jewelry at great prices. If you’re looking for earrings, engagement rings, watches, birthstone jewelry, gifts for children or any other jewelry item, then you should take a look at Jewelry Discount House. Plus, they offer free shipping on all orders and free sizing on all rings.
So, check out the new Jewelry Discount House CheapTweet Store and be sure you follow them on Twitter.
CheapTweet Happy Hour #10: Werewolves, vampires and New Moon
This is our tenth happy hour video! This week, Hayes is too busy reading “New Moon” to talk much, but he has decided he’s on Team Jacob. We’ve got deals on Twilight stuff, spring clothes, movie rentals and a chance for you to a win a Ford Mustang! Watch for details, links are posted below.
Have a great weekend!
CheapTweet Happy Hour #9: It’s spring!
This video is a couple days behind schedule, but here is it now. (Please excuse our lateness; I was out sick with the flu last week.) It’s finally spring! We found a few good deals – and one not-so-good deal – to celebrate the new season. The deals we talk about in the video are linked to below.
We’ll be back Friday with our regularly-scheduled video.
- Free pastry with drink purchase at Starbucks on Tuesday, 3/23 until 10:30 a.m.
- Burpee: The Complete Vegetable and Herb Gardener for $26 (orig. $39)
- Payless ShoeSource coupons, 15% off in-store, $10 off online purchase of $50 or more, expires 4/4
- More information about the bad Kmart coupon
CheapTweet Happy Hour #8: Our pig has a name!
We chose a winner for the pig-naming Bye Bye Birdie contest. Watch the video below to see what name won.
Milton is the new CheapTweet mascot! He’s going to help all of us save lots of money.
Announcing the newest CheapTweet Store: Kaplan Toys
We’re very happy to introduce the newest brand to become a CheapTweet Store – Kaplan Toys!
Kaplan Toys specializes in high quality, educational toys that challenge children’s intellect and stretch their imaginations. A division of Kaplan Early Learning Company, Kaplan Toys offers a huge selection of safe toys, games and gifts that teach and entertain. We’re very excited to have Kaplan Toys on CheapTweet!
Best of all, they’re launching with a great deal – get 10% off your order of $25 or more. Plus, free shipping on orders over $50.
Be sure to check out their CheapTweet Store and follow Kaplan Toys on Twitter.
Enter our Bye Bye Birdie contest
Help us name our new mascot! We’re running a contest to see who can come up with the best name for our new pig. Just tweet:
Hey @cheaptweet, name the pig _____! http://bit.ly/c0cjdZ #cheaptweetpig
and you’ll be entered to win some cool CheapTweet swag and be immortalized for your pig-naming skills.
You’re probably familiar with our beloved mascot – the adorable bird who tweets about good deals. We’ve had this bird for more than a year, but it’s time for us to move on. So as we usher in a new era of finding deals, we say goodbye to the bird and present to you the new CheapTweet mascot – this incredibly cute little pig.
But this pig needs a name! And we need your help in picking something really, really good. Starting right now, we’re going to solicit all the name recommendations we can via Twitter. We’ll then pick our favorite name and whoever comes up with that name will win a great prize!
To enter, post this message with your name idea: “Hey @cheaptweet, name the pig _______! http://bit.ly/c0cjdZ #cheaptweetpig”
- Tweet the message above with your suggestion filled in
- Don’t DM us
- Tweet as many name suggestions as you want
The contest will run through Thursday night.
- Contest ends at 10:00 p.m. CST, Thursday, 3/11/10
- We’ll announce the winner on Friday, 3/12/10
Whoever picks the best name gets a great prize!
- The CheapTweet team will select their favorite name from all the suggestions
- Whoever picks the best name will win a CheapTweet t-shirt, plus other fun surprises
- If we find more than one name we like, we might have a run-off
So, what do you think should we name our new pig?
Big changes to CheapTweet.com
It’s a very big day in the CheapTweet office. We just indexed our 5 millionth deal tweet! To celebrate monumental tweet #5,000,000, we’re rolling out some awesome new CheapTweet features, including something we’ve very, very excited about – the CheapTweet DealStream. We’ve also enhanced our search engine technology, implemented a new voting mechanism, polished up our site, and got a new logo and a new mascot! Here’s more information about the new CheapTweet.com.
DealStream
We’ve been quietly testing the CheapTweet DealStream for a little while – some of you have been part of our beta test – and now it’s time to share it with everyone. This is a very cool new feature, and we can’t wait for you to try it.
Did you know that we find more than 30,000 new deal tweets most days? That’s a whole lot of deals, and it can be hard to sort through all that to find what you want. This is why we created the DealStream – it’s a personalized and fully customizable stream of only the deals you want to see. There’s a lot more about how to set up your DealStream here. You need a CheapTweet account to use the DealStream, so either sign in or sign up to use it.
Upgraded Search Engine
We’ve made some very useful enhancements to our search engine, which uses specialized algorithms to aggregate tweets about the same deals. This helps you quickly see what deals are popular, reduces duplicate deals on the site, and really helps us sort through spam. Of those 30,000 new tweets we find each day, only about half of them actually make it to the site.
New Voting Mechanism
We’ve removed the It’s Cheap and It’s Lame buttons and replaced them with a straightforward thumbs up and thumbs down button. Just give a thumbs up to the deals you like and a thumbs down to the deals you don’t. Piece of cake.
New Logo and Site Design
One our favorite parts of the new CheapTweet.com is our new mascot. Isn’t this little pig so cute? We’ll be running a contest to help us pick a name for him soon; stay tuned for those details. We’ve got some great prizes for the winner. And in addition to the new mascot and logo, we’ve polished up the way the site looks.
Got any questions about the new features? Let us know! We’re on Twitter and Facebook.
How does the CheapTweet DealStream work?
We just launched a very cool new feature on CheapTweet.com – the CheapTweet DealStream. It’s a whole new way to find the deals you’re looking for, making it easier, faster and even more fun than ever before. If you don’t have a CheapTweet account, now’s the time to sign up!
Here’s some more information about how the DealStream works and how to set up your own personalized DealStream.
What is the CheapTweet DealStream?
The CheapTweet DealStream finds the exact deals you want, and delivers them to you right when you want them. The CheapTweet DealStream is a real-time feed of personalized recommendations just for you. You can set your preferences for what kinds of deals you want to see – you can follow certain brands or stores, as well as different kinds of products or keywords.
Every day, we filter through more than 20,000 deal tweets to add more than 10,000 new deals to the site. The DealStream filters through all of these deals – more than 5 million deals overall – to find the perfect deals just for you. It helps you find what you want quickly and easily.
How do I set up my DealStream?
Getting started with the DealStream is simple. You can tweak these settings later, so just pick some to get things started. You’ll need a CheapTweet account to use the DealStream, so go sign up here if you don’t have one already (or sign in to your existing account here).
When you first sign into your account after clicking on the DealStream link, you’ll be taken to the initial DealStream setup page. Setting up your DealStream takes less than a minute.
- What general categories interest you? Check as many as you like. If you check on a top-level category, like Fashion & Beauty, we’ll automatically fill in the sub-categories. If you’re only interested in one or two sub-categories under a top-level category, just check those.
- Enter in some keywords to refine your DealStream. You can get as specific as you want here. Type in words or phrases that describe the names of stores, brands, or products you like.
- Once you’ve entered your preferences, click the “I’m done” button to see the deals we’ve found for you.
You can update these prefences at any time, so you’re not locked into what you set up initially. Play around with it, see what works for you.
How do I make my DealStream smarter?
You can further refine your DealStream in two ways: voting on deals and editing the categories and keywords you selected.
Click the thumbs up button on deals you like. Click thumbs down button on deals you don’t like. When you give a deal the thumbs down, you can also tell us why you don’t like it. Just click on the pink gear that appears when you click thumbs down, then tell us more about why you didn’t like that deal. All this helps us know what deals to show you next time.
At any time, you can edit the categories and keywords you are following. Just click Edit next to categories or keywords and make any changes you’d like.
How do I see my DealStream?
Once you’ve set up your DealStream, you can see the deals it has found for you in several ways. You can always log back into CheapTweet and click on the DealStream button on the top left of the page.
You can also get an RSS feed of your DealStream. Just click on the “DealStream Feed” button on the right side of your DealStream page. Then you can set up the DealStream RSS feed in your favorite feed reader.