Twitter
can earn you discounts and cash back on a range of products and services. We
pick six of the best tweet bonuses
Boost your Dropbox space to 16GB
You can increase the 2GB storage
limit of your free Dropbox account by referring your friends to the service via Twitter. Visit the Get morespace’ page and click ‘Connect your Twitter account’. Authorize Dropbox to use your
account (it won’t be able to see your password or read your direct messages)
and you’ll instantly get an extra 125MB of space. Refer your Twitter followers
and, for each one who signs up with Dropbox, you II get an extra 500MB, up to a
maximum of 16GB. This saves you having to upgrade to a Dropbox Pro account,
which costs $9.99 (about £6.06) a month, for more space.
Tweet TunnelBear for 1GB of free data
The brilliant Virtual Private
Network tool TunnelBear,
which we recommended has a generous Twitter promotion. The free version of the
service gives you 300MB of traffic data every month, but if you tweet
TunnelBear and ask for an extra 1GB, your account will be credited with the
extra data within a few minutes. You can tweet once a month to receive an extra
free gigabyte of data each time, and TunnelBear also offers bonuses for “creative
or bear-themed” tweets. See www.tunnelbear.com/twitter-promo
for full details of the offer.
Earn cashback for checking into shops
Download the iPhone or Android app
for cashback site Quidco (www.quidco.com)
and you can earn a check-in reward when you visit participating high-street
stores, simply by sharing your
location on Twitter (or Facebook). The amounts you receive aren't huge sometimes
as little as 5p per check-in but many big retailers are covered, including
Waterstones, Homebase, Tesco, Asda and H Samuel.
So if you’re out shopping and
don’t mind sharing your exact location with all your Twitter followers, the
Quidco app provides an easy means of earning a few extra bob, It even tells you
where to find your nearest
check-in bonuses.
Get cashback for referring friends
Rival cashback site TopCashback (www.topcashback.co.uk) pays you £7.50
when you refer friends through Twitter (as well as on Facebook and by email)
Just visit the Tell-A-Friend page (www.topcashback.co.uk/tell-a-friend
to get your unique referral link, then tweet it to your followers. When someone
signs up using the link and accumulates £10 cashback in their account, you’ll
get your £7.50. There’s no limit on the number of friends you can refer. Quidco
has a similar referral scheme (www.quidco.com/referrals)
that pays £2.50 for each friend who joins.
Cut the cost of local deals
Invite your friends to join the
daily-deals site Groupon and for each
one who signs up and buys a deal. you'll get £6 credit to spend on the site. To
earn you the referral bonus, your friend just needs to click through to Groupon
and register using the unique link you share on Twitter. The catch is that they
must buy the deal within 72 hours of clicking the link for the first time and
not cancel their account within the first seven days.
Get friends to join Giffgaff
When you order a SIM card from pay-as-you-go
mobile network Giffgaff, you’re given a unique order
page. Tweet the link to your Twitter friends and, it anyone orders and
activates a SIM through this page, you’ll both get 500 payback points, worth
£5. If you post a SIM to your friend, you get 500 points when it’s activated,
and if a friend says you recommended them when they sign up, you get 200
points, worth £2.
