Targeting specifically deals-oriented users Twitter has introduced its new @EarlyBird account. This one will essentially be Twitter’s own account for the distribution of time-sensitive offers and discounts. All you need to do is follow it, and make sure you catch your worm early enough (before it’s gone).
Explaining what it is, and how it will work [...]
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The number of followers a Twitter account has is irrelevant, or near-irrelevant. It is the influence that it has that’s important.
I’ve had a merchant approach me with an idea to run a giveaway promo, distributing gift certificates where the nominal of the gift card would be tied to how many Twitter followers or blog subscribers [...]
On October 27, 2009 LinkShare launched a Twitter tool for affiliates to use. Almost simultaneously with the LinkShare’s announcement, Amazitter (an iPhone app for tweeting Amazon affiliate links) came out. The wave continued, and yesterday Amazon has changed its policy from no affiliate links on Twitter to let’s “Share on Twitter” and provided a tool [...]
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In an effort to bring an “online Twitter mini-mall” to consumers LinkShare has announced a #tweetshop tool which allows affiliates to tweet recommendations of merchants’ products for their followers to see. Recommendations can be put together within one interface, and here’s a LinkShare’s video on how this works:
Very cool idea. Kind of like PopShops for [...]
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So the Federal Trade Commission has announced the new rules for disclosing the sponsor-endorser relationships. This includes all affiliates that tweet, post, or publish any other online content that has affiliate links embedded in it (or content on which they earn money).
But how do you squeeze an appropriate disclosure into the 140 characters of [...]
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I have just finished a quick Twitter analysis of 100 tweets with the word “affiliate” in them, and discovered that the two most popular topics “affiliate”-related people tweet about are: (i) tools, eBooks and technology that can make you a fortune overnight, and (ii) the “best affiliate program(s) on earth”. The former category includes tweets [...]
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