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12:14 pm, August 14th, 2009, Leander Kahney
Here’s a clever way to use Twitter to get attention for a new iPhone app — get Twitter users to tweet about a MacBook prize giveaway.
Taptaptap is giving away a $6,000 custom MacBook to a lucky follower of the company’s Twitter stream, drawn at random.
The competition is hotting up as Twitter users retweet the details and the promotion spreads virally. More than 10,500 people have entered so far, less than a day after the competition opened.
To enter, users must follow Taptaptap’s Twitter stream, and then broadcast details of the competition by updating their Twitter status with the competition URL: http://tweetblast.taptaptap.com. The winner will be drawn at random on August 27.
The competition is to promote Taptaptap’s new app called Convert, a unit calculator that costs $1 (launch special).
The winner will get a brand new ColorWare Stealth MacBook Pro — a limited edition MacBook Pro that’s been customized with a soft-touch, matt black coating. Only 10 made, says ColorWare, and worth $5,999.
If you enter, keep an eye on your Twitter account. The winner will notified with a direct message. If they don’t respond within a week, a new winner will be chosen.
Posted by Leander Kahney in Hardware, MacBook Pro, News, Tweets, Web | 4 Comments »
8:40 am, June 8th, 2009, Leander Kahney
CC-licensed picture by Luca Bartolletti
The line for this morning’s Schillernote at WWDC was already several blocks long before the first light of dawn. See the pictures on Flickr and reports on Twitter. Compare to this unintentionally hilarious collection of pre-dawn Palm Pre lineup photos.
Talking of Twitter, there’s been several tweets saying Steve Jobs has been spotted at WWDC.
However, it looks like a false rumor that’s spreading fast. Most of the Twitter sightings seem to be a retweet of a tweet by Michael Fey, known as MrRooni, who said: “Holy damn I just saw Steve Jobs walk through Moscone! #wwdc.”
‘I’m guessing, but MrRooni’s tweet looks like a joke to me. But now the joke is spreading, and others are treating it as real.
Posted by Leander Kahney in Apple, News, Tweets, iPhone, iPhone 3G | 1 Comment »
2:23 am, March 6th, 2009, Giles Turnbull
Posted by Giles Turnbull in Opinions, Top stories, Tweets | 12 Comments »
11:59 pm, September 25th, 2008, Craig Grannell
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11:59 pm, September 13th, 2008, Craig Grannell
- Devon Kelly and friends literally make a song and dance about Mac OS X’s spinning rainbow of doom: http://bit.ly/1LZ8oZ #
- Apple rejects Podcaster from the App Store for, er, no discernible sensible reason – http://bit.ly/3a66nC (Hat tip: Daring Fireball.) #
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11:59 pm, September 10th, 2008, Craig Grannell
- CG: Genius sidebar could not find matches for your specific selection, but here are the Top Songs and Albums in the iTunes Store. *sigh* #
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11:59 pm, August 21st, 2008, Craig Grannell
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11:59 pm, August 18th, 2008, Craig Grannell
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11:59 pm, August 12th, 2008, Craig Grannell
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11:59 pm, July 30th, 2008, Craig Grannell
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11:59 pm, July 28th, 2008, Craig Grannell
- CG: The Small Wave on iPhone’s native iTunes UI versus the superior one from the Remote app: http://bit.ly/o0BCM #
UPDATE: Above link fixed. Thanks, Church of Apple.
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11:59 pm, July 18th, 2008, Craig Grannell
- CG: Sega bloke claims iPhone is as powerful as the Dreamcast. We await iPhone Crazy Taxi with bated breath. http://tinyurl.com/5j9kbz #
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11:59 pm, July 17th, 2008, Craig Grannell
- CG: Ars Technica reports that Apple’s knocked apps with names trying to leapfrog the queue back into touch. Ha! http://tinyurl.com/6nwecr #
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11:59 pm, July 16th, 2008, Craig Grannell
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11:59 pm, July 15th, 2008, Craig Grannell
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