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 Defense officials react to Hegseth's Quantico meeting. Government shutdown is here. Here's what to expect. President asks nation's top generals to loosen up. Colorado wants to give 'peace of mind' on Hunter S. Thompson. Report an error