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The winning tweet and tweeter have been chosen. The winner has been notified via Twitter Direct Message, and I’m just waiting to hear back on if he/she is alright with me announcing it.
Huge thanks to all of you who entered! Really, I had so much fun watching this take shape today. I literally woke up this morning and said to my wife “I think I’m going to do a twitter contest to give away a poster”… she nodded, and I started this post. I had no idea I would have so much fun. I will absolutely do this again soon.
So, let’s talk about how this all turned out…
The first plan was to have my puppy and 9 month old son choose the winner. I hadn’t worked out exactly how, but I was picturing a pile of entries printed on bacon wrapped gram crackers… the rest is fuzzy.
With very few options in the clearly under-served market of bacon wrapped gram crackers, I was forced to adopt a slightly more boring approach.
There were a total of 51 valid entries. Each entry was given it’s own line in a spreadsheet in chronological order of when the tweet was made. My lovely wife pointed me to the slick and simple random number generator at random.org that gave me a random number between 1 and 51. The tweet that fell on that line number was deemed the winner.
While it didn’t hold quite the magic of a slobber war between the baby and the dog, it got the job done.
So my friends. Thank you again, and stay tuned for I will definitely be holding another contest soon! (but if you don’t want to wait for the next contest, just buy a poster!!!
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I’ve seen this done all over Twitter & thought it might be fun to try on this otherwise mundane Tuesday.
I’m offering signed and numbered Magic In Type Castle Poster to a random tweeter. To enter, just re-tweet the following…
I just entered to win a Magic in Type letterpress poster! Follow @rustin & tag #magicintype to enter. http://bit.ly/OQkh8
I’ll be choosing a winner randomly today (Aug 11, 2009) at 6:00PM Mountain Time! You need to be following @rustin, and have tweeted the above message before the end of the contest to be eligible.
Now… go tweet!
how did you make that plate?!
The pate making was all taken care of by the totally awesome Foils & Dies/Vintage Press Works in Denver Colorado.
xlnt! and you gave them digital?
Yep. I send them an Illustrator file, and they mage some serious magic happen for me.
We’re hopefully going to be teaming up on a few projects in the future too.