CouponAlbum.com Announces Availability of Its Online Coupons Through Social Networks

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Social Networks have seen an exponential growth in the past couple of years. According to a report released last year by comScore, Social Networking sites saw a growth of over 25% worldwide. In yet another report released by Nielsen.com, Social Networks combined with Blogs are now the 4th most popular online activity, even ahead of personal email. According to this report, time spent by users on these sites accounts for almost 10 percent of the total Internet time, and is growing three times faster than the overall Internet rate. The report also says that a whopping two thirds of the global online population is now subscribed to these Social Networks. It has indeed changed the way people collaborate with each other and exchange information in real time, completely changing the archetype of alliance and communication. These networks are not just meeting places for friends, and even corporations are using this as an additional dimension for marketing and communicating directly with their customers.

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Social portals like FaceBook and Twitter are house-hold terms these days, and touching everyone's lives. According to the Nielsen report, FaceBook.com is the most popular site, which was visited by more than 30% of people using social networks. FaceBook's latest statistics show a huge user base of more than 300 million, out of which more than 150 million users log on to FaceBook at least once each day.

Twitter is a micro-blogging service that lets people post frequent messages or updates, popularly known as "tweets", of not longer than 140 characters. According to comScore Twitter.com quadrupled to 17 million U.S. visitors in April as compared to Feb 09.

"CouponAlbum.com which continues to be one of the top online consumer savings destinations for online coupons, discounts and promotion codes, announced that it can now be found on both FaceBook and Twitter," said Angela Gorski, Media Manager, CouponAlbum. "Both social sites can now be used by online shoppers to receive the latest discount offers and coupon codes."

CouponAlbum has its own FaceBook Coupons page offering the latest Online Coupons and Promotional codes. Twitter users can also stay up to date on the latest offers from CouponAlbum.com. Followers of http://twitter.com/CouponAlbum will automatically receive the latest coupon tweets on a regular basis. Through these services, CouponAlbum wants to make social consumers aware of the latest savings opportunities on the fly.

About CouponAlbum.com: CouponAlbum applies a clean design approach by following a non-flashy banner policy to reduce visual noise. It also features a forums section for shoppers to share and discuss online and printable coupons. We process hundreds of newsletters and emails daily and process about 10 million records to handpick the optimal 100,000 deals - based on our proprietary algorithm.