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** Update *****************
\nThe 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.<\/p>\n

Huge<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

So, let’s talk about how this all turned out…
\nThe first plan was to have my puppy and 9 month old son choose the winner<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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<\/a> pointed me to the slick and simple random number generator at random.org<\/a> that gave me a random number between 1 and 51. The tweet that fell on that line number was deemed the winner.<\/p>\n

While it didn’t hold quite the magic of a slobber war between the baby and the dog, it got the job done.<\/p>\n

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!!!<\/a><\/p>\n

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I’ve seen this done all over Twitter & thought it might be fun to try on this otherwise mundane Tuesday.<\/p>\n

I’m offering signed and numbered Magic In Type Castle Poster<\/strong><\/a> to a random tweeter. To enter, just re-tweet the following…<\/p>\n

I just entered to win a Magic in Type letterpress poster! Follow @rustin<\/a> & tag #magicintype<\/a> to enter. http:\/\/bit.ly\/OQkh8<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll be choosing a winner randomly today<\/strong> (Aug 11, 2009) at 6:00PM Mountain Time<\/strong>! You need to be following @rustin<\/a>, and have tweeted the above message before the end of the contest to be eligible.<\/p>\n

Now… go tweet!<\/p>\n

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** Update ***************** 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. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,27],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-posts","tag-letterpress","tag-magic-in-type","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}