Technology | Twitter How to Get Free Stuff on Twitter Follow the right tweeters, and mind your hashtags By John Johnson Posted May 8, 2010 3:23 PM CDT Copied Twitter is great for free merchandise, if you know how to look. (AP Photo/Simon Dawson) More and more marketers are giving away free stuff on Twitter, and Erin Gifford at Mashable offers advice on to cash in. Read the full list here. A sampling: Find tweeters who give away merchandise by searching for "freebie" or "free stuff." Some winners: @heyitsfree; @freestuffrocks; @freenology; and @fstimes. Freebie aggregator sites are popping up. Try http://twitterfreebies.com/ Use hashtags. Punch in #freebie or #freebies in the search box to pull up related tweets. "If you use TweetDeck or TweetGrid, set up a column alongside your Twitter stream to monitor for incoming tweets with certain hashtags." Read These Next Trump has threatened to revoke Rosie O'Donnell's citizenship. FEMA failed to answer thousands of calls after the Texas floods. Job seekers should brace for a harsher new reality. To chill, you may need a kolonitradgardar. Report an error