For those of you still unsure about Twitter, consider looking past the use of it as a way to update people on your own personal status. I know I have heard plenty complain about this being the same thing as Facebook’s status update, and also have heard complaints about the boring updates so many people post (although I’d say this is true for Facebook as well). So, what else can Twitter do for you?
I know one of the many arenas of wife/mom competition is in penny-pinching and bargain hunting. I’m not saying all women search for deals in order to gain bragging rights, but I think in some circles there is an undercurrent of mild competition on who can find the best deal. And once those great deals are found, it’s your right (and duty) to share.
There are many, many sites for finding deals and coupons; I am aware of this, and I am not trying to make a comparative analysis by any means. In fact, I really just wanted to post something Twitter-related that was different than what I have been doing. So, the point is, consider using Twitter for your bargain hunting. There are a few ways to do this.
If you are an insatiable bargain hunter, who would like to know about all the deals available, consider checking into cheaptweet.com. It’s pretty well-known as a base for gathering tweeted deals. It has a search feature so that if you are looking for a particular bargain, you can find it. What makes this site fun is the rating feature. You can click a tweet as “it’s cheap” and the more clicks it gets, the higher it rises, so that if you arrange the deals by the cheapest, you can see what others are clicking on to find honestly good deals. CheapTweet also has stores that will post their own special deals—like here, at the Barnes & Noble store.
Another way to use Twitter to shop for you is to just follow places you shop at. For instance, let’s say you’re obsessed with Forever 21; just follow @Forever21_tweet and you can have their sale tweets delivered directly to your phone. You’ll never miss a sale again. Granted, not all stores will have an account, but you can even follow brands—like Huggies diapers—and they’ll have deals and contests and giveaways and all sorts of ways to save you money (they may also have a lot of pointless fluff, but they want you to feel like they’re personal, so that you trust buying things from them).
And of course there are already plenty of bargain-hunting mommies searching for the very same deals you are; you can find ones you share interests with and just let them do the searching for you.
So you see, you can get more out of Twitter than simply learning who had eggs for breakfast and who is bored this morning. 
The Daring Kitchen
