Twitter announces its new daily deal service this week, a UK-based daily deal site is in hot water over a promotion gone awry, and BuyWithMe has some major expansion plans. Here’s your Friday daily deal roundup:
- Twitter announced it’s own daily deal service this week. “Earlybird“ plans to compete with Groupon and LivingSocial by offering exclusive deals to its followers. The service, which will offer deals in tech, fashion, entertainment, and travel, will offer deals nationally in the US first before expanding to international and local markets. [CNN][PCWorld]
- Hypothetically, Twitter would be able to track users that retweet the deals, thereby crediting them with affiliate revenue. This could be a smoother process than requiring users to log into the daily deal sites and getting their own affiliate links.
- A British daily deal company draws fire after a failed iPhone promotion. [The Register]
- BuyWithMe raised $16M in new funding this week. Upcoming plans? Expand to 20 cities by the end of 2010. [Alarm Clock][TechCrunch]
- Groupon teams up with Fatwallet in revenue sharing partnership. Fatwallet users will now be able to get cash back on Groupon deals in addition to their favorite existing merchants. [CenterNetworks]
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