Neowin give-away: Windows 7 USB pen drive
By Tom Warren, 01 December 2009 - 13:25 106 comments
At Neowin we like giving away gear we pick up on our travels. In October we gave away a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate to a lucky winner.
It's December 1 and Santa is on his way in a few weeks time but we thought now is a good time to give away a Windows 7 USB pen drive kindly donated by HP. The pen drive has a 2GB capacity.
It's simple to enter, just do the following:
- If you don't have a Twitter account, sign up at Twitter.com
- Checkout our Tweet and Re-tweet it (or copy and paste the message in full into a new tweet of your own)
- We will stop accepting entries on Friday December 4 at 14:00 GMT and will announce the winner shortly afterwards.
Update: Congrats to our winner xMafiotuLx
Comments (106)
gadean - 01 December 2009 - 13:26
that's awesome!
Lord Ba'al - 03 December 2009 - 00:44
Awesomely retarded, that is.
Why would any grown person want a Playmobil kid's toy usb stick?
http://www.playmobil.de/on/demandware.store/Sites-GB-Site
What's next? "Teletubbies" usb sticks? "My little Pony" usb sticks? "Bob the Builder" usb sticks?
YTZ - 01 December 2009 - 13:32
any other colour??
Tom W - 01 December 2009 - 13:32
No we only have this 1 to give away
ruxx - 01 December 2009 - 13:35
I usually never win but I'm gonna take a chance this time.
s3n4te - 01 December 2009 - 13:35
Done! http://twitter.com/s3n4te/status/6234823655
+Sethos - 01 December 2009 - 13:35
Asked the Neowin feed whether we had to retweet the old or the new way, guess we can do both then
Hungarian Salami - 01 December 2009 - 13:43
Yeah, yeah like I'm participating this time, I'm still waiting for my "I'm a PC" stickers...
Tom W - 01 December 2009 - 16:51
haha I know we dropped the ball on that, they are on their way though I promise.
KamiQuazi - 01 December 2009 - 17:20
I second that.... Still searching the ol' mailbox for my package of stickers too..
naap51stang - 01 December 2009 - 13:46
I guess I'm too old (50), but I don't get twitter....and I consider myself "a geek".
Been messing with electronics of one form or another since the early 70's, build my own computers,
always keep up with the new gadgets...but twitter I just don't get. I don't care to know what everyone is doing
24/7.
Can someone explain to me why the fascination with twitter without calling me a noob or something else?
+what - 01 December 2009 - 13:50
Nope. It's impossible to explain. I don't get it either, I only have a Twitter for these competitions :P
JonathanMarston - 01 December 2009 - 19:23
Funny thing is everyone talks about Twitter like it's the young people doing it, but I was talking to my brother the other day that does marketing for a university, and he said they've pretty much stopped bothering with Twitter because young people in their teens and twenties don't use it...
ThaCrip - 02 December 2009 - 00:34
i agree. i am 30 myself and all those 'twitter/myspace/facebook' etc type websites seem pretty much 'for kids'. (although i was just searching around and it seems some fairly famous people are using Facebook. so it can't be to bad
)
but out of all three i would say if i had to pick one to use it would most likely be Facebook since it's seems a lot more professional looking vs the bloated MySpace. MySpace i FOR SURE won't ever use. the other two (i.e. Twitter/Facebook) i might have a chance to use but MySpace is completely never going to happen with me. but i suspect if i get a twitter account eventually it will probably be for these types of contests.
+littleneutrino - 01 December 2009 - 13:49
Done.
I don't understand the Twitter competitions, maybe I'm just not getting it, but they are getting dumb (nothing against this specific one) but companies like Wendy's using it to get free stuff and competitions was odd... then I started seeing more and more of them... now itseems like you have to have twitter just to enter giveaways anymore... is twitter going down hill that fast that they need to put this kind of stuff on it just to pump traffic?
+Sethos - 01 December 2009 - 13:58
How do you come to that conclusion, that it's going downhill when a lot of outlets choose to market through it and run competitions? I would say it's because the thing is going UP hill as in it's popular.
Have you read some of the news articles lately that say twitter has lost as much as 80% of their traffic in recent months?
+Northgrove - 01 December 2009 - 15:33
They do them on Twitter to get exposure. See the "re-tweet" requirement. This is why you can't simply send an e-mail to compete. That won't generate buzz on Twitter.
aessap - 01 December 2009 - 13:54
Wow... I guess I had a twitter account from way back... woohoo for my second tweet LOL