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 North Carolina shooting suspect once walked the red carpet. The gunman who killed 4 at a Michigan church was an ex-marine. 'We heard a big bang,' says churchgoer in Michigan Skydivers leap from plane 2 minutes before fatal crash. Report an error