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We’d Love to Promote your Cash Mob

Ever hear of cash mobs? In a cash mob, a local store or restaurant is designated by the community as the recipient of a one day promotion where customers spend at least $20, using Twitter and other local media to broadcast the event. Cash mobs can also promote arts events, like youth symphonies, and causes [...]

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Who we accept to the Breaking News Retweet Program

First, do you know about our Retweet Program? We can automatically retweet your tweets through our Breaking News Twitter feeds. If you have applied to the program and are accepted, you should have received the following email: Hi______, We look forward to helping you get your message across through the Breaking News Network. We have “authorized” [...]

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Apply for Automated Retweets through our Breaking News Twitter feeds

Hi, you’ve arrived here from clicking on one our Breaking News Twitter feeds. We’re pleased to help you deliver your messages to your community by retweeting your tweets simply by you adding the hashtag #cityname (in this case #albany)   First, read why it’s our community service mission is to get your tweets broadcast out [...]

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The Story behind the Breaking News Network

The Breaking News Network launched in 2009 as a project of the Domus Consulting Group, my former company. Domus started in 2007 as a strategy group to industries like media, real estate and retail that needed to understand how to use social media to reach their local community. Among our first assignments with real estate [...]

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Why we want to retweet your tweets and get your word out

Welcome! The Breaking News Network is a national hyperlocal network in over 300 cities dedicated to community service and social media sourced news. Each city in our network is managed by locals. If you’re a business, civic group, arts organization or good cause, and you’re actively using Twitter to share your community news, events, initiatives, [...]

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