Posts Tagged ‘twitter’

Blog Relaunch Event: Twitter Contest

January 1st, 2010 by Manda | 27 Comments | Filed in Online

As promised, I’m back! It’s finally January 1, 2010, which means that it’s time to show off a newly revamped breakthesky.net! But before I get into the nitty gritty details of what’s new around here, I want to delve into the exciting stuff: I’m holding a Twitter contest to celebrate my blog’s relaunch!

Longtime readers of my blog know I like to dabble in crafting whenever I have the time to do so. In the last month or so that I’ve been away, I’ve whipped up three knitted cupcakes with removable cake cases to give away to three lucky participants of my Twitter contest! Please hover over the images to read the cupcake description.

Each cupcake has its own Twitter #hashtag, depending on the color of the cupcake case:

RT @eternitycrash: Blog Relaunch Event! http://breakthesky.net #breaktheskypink

RT @eternitycrash: Blog Relaunch Event! http://breakthesky.net #breaktheskyyellow

RT @eternitycrash: Blog Relaunch Event! http://breakthesky.net #breaktheskyblue

Participants will pick one of the above #hashtags to retweet, depending on which cupcake they like best. This ensures that there will be three different winners for each cupcake, as it wouldn’t be fair if one person won them all! Each message only needs to be tweeted once, as multiple retweets will not increase chances of winning.

A Twitter account is required to participate in this relaunch giveaway. The contest starts now and will end on January 3, 2010, at 12pm CST. Once the 48 hours are up, I will be randomly selecting the winning tweets and will announce them on my Twitter account. I will then be in touch with the winners (either through email or Twitter DMs) to arrange how I can send them the cupcakes so they can receive their prize.

Good luck, and get tweeting! ;)

(Many thanks to Melissa and her article 5 Helpful Tips for a Rockin’ Twitter Contest.)

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Pride and Prejudice Twitter Style

October 12th, 2009 by Manda | 5 Comments | Filed in Entertainment

Readers who want to ask me any question and have it answered can comment on this post. I’ll be answering all questions on October 18!

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has been reinvented many, many times. Seth Grahame-Smith added zombie revisions to it in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and it’s also been retold in a Facebook version.

Now, there is a Twitter version of Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Complete with @replies, #hashtags, and DMs, “Pride and Twitterverse” retells the classic tale of Lizzie Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy in tweets of 140 characters or less!

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Where to Find Me

July 17th, 2009 by Manda | 6 Comments | Filed in Online

I’ve never actually come out and stated what my usernames are for various social networking sites, so I thought I would list the prominent ones all in one go. My LiveJournal account has friends only entries and crossposted entries from my blog, my Dreamwidth account will be sporadically updated with friends only entries once I get around to customizing my account, and my Twitter account is protected to avoid spambots.

Feel free to add/friend me at any of these social networking sites if you like!

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