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We’ve built CheapTweet with shoppers and deal-hunters in mind. We want to make it as easy as possible for you to find exactly the deals, coupons, and discounts you’re looking for, whenever you want them. Here are five ways to get a personalized deal experience with CheapTweet.

1. Set up your DealStream

The CheapTweet DealStream is a personalized feed of deals built just for you. The DealStream automatically monitors all the thousands of deals we find every day and keeps tracks of the ones you might like – you just have to tell it a little about what you like. And then only the most relevant deals are displayed in your DealStream, which you can access from CheapTweet.com or via an RSS feed. Your DealStream is updated all the time, so there are always new deals for you.

Sign up for a CheapTweet account to get your DealStream set up. It’s a quick and easy process, and there are more details here about how to set up and use your DealStream.

2. Search for a keyword or product

If you’re looking for a coupon for a specific item or store, use our search function to find that particular coupon. You can search for any kind of keyword, product name, store or brand, etc… Just type what you’re looking for into the search box and see what kinds of deals we can find for you.

3. Browse by category

Sometimes you just feel like browsing, right? We’ve organized all our deals into categories. Try looking around at some of our most popular deals in a category and see if there’s anything you like. For example, check out our Fashion and Beauty category. There are a lot more categories on CheapTweet, for everything from TV & Video to Pets to Travel (and so many more!). You can get to any category from the top navigation menu on CheapTweet.com.

4. Follow your favorite merchant

Each store, merchant, and brand has its own page on CheapTweet.com. This is the fastest way of looking through a merchant’s official deals and seeing what kinds of sales are going on now. Some of our favorites include Old Navy, Starbucks, DSW Shoes and Home Depot. There are thousands of merchants on CheapTweet, so look around for your favorites. We link to their websites and to their Twitter accounts, so it’s easy to purchase from them or follow them on Twitter.

5. Ask us for help

We are always here if you have any questions! If there’s something you’re looking for but can’t find, just ask. We’re happy to help and are available on Twitter and Facebook, and of course by email.

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.

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.

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.