You know what's pretty much the best thing in the world? Free stuff. In fact, the only way you can improve on free stuff is free stuff you win FAST. Instant gratification. That's why Destructoid has decided to use the world's most popular instant social networking system to give away swag -- and in fact, we're going to try to do it once EVERY Friday. Wrap your head around that, if you will.
This Friday, we'll kick it all off by giving away four free Xbox 360 codes for Puzzle Quest: Galactrix through our Dtoid Twitter account. We will announce that we are ready to give one away four times during the day on Friday (times unspecified, of course -- you'll just have to watch and wait!). When we announce we have one to give, reply in message and say "I want it!". The first person to reply will win a code and we'll send it your way immediately via a direct message. You get a free game within a matter of minutes. Easy as that. Good luck!
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12:46 PM on 04.24.2009 | 
Simply put from a networking/social perspective, Twitter is a great way for Destructoid to reach out to the entire Twitter community and gain valuable community members that they would not have gotten in-house.
Despite my disdain for Twitter, most websites use it as a successful social networking tool due to it's popularity. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Contests on the actual website: Good
Contests on other sites like Twitter and Facebook: Not so good.
Nice idea for a contest though.
And no, I'm not following Ashton or oprah!
Actually I don't get twitter at all. all I know is I watched some d-bag and his gigantic jawed multi teeth girlfriend talk about how hannah montana is on twitter, on youtube.
I basically have to sit here all day just for this contest if I want to win it, bleh.
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As for the moral thing, i do not have a facebook account specifically for that same reason, the watch/control culture that it propagates, but twitter sounds like something reasonable i would join, so what is morally unacceptable about one-liner updates on the internet? sorry for being an idiot, but would like to know before i venture head first into this.
Also there's the sense of being able to keep a little more in touch with people as far as day to day stuff goes. Kinda like how you just chat about nothing important with friends at school or work.
Now it's evolved into something sites like Destructoid can use to link you to new articles the instant they get posted. Or opportunities like seeing a live ustream broadcast of Alex Albrect playing guitar and singing with his gf once getting drunk. Fun times were had by all!
Just sign up, follow a bunch of friends or sites you like Dtoid or CNN or people like N'Gai Croal some movie star. I mainly use it to keep up to date on video game news. Just follow sites and people in the industry. You don't even have to post to it if you don't feel like it. It's just a toy after all. :)
But yeah, if it is a fast way for social networking, and finding some of my old friends without invading anyone's privacy or theirs mine..then it should be fine.
What worries me is that some here are saying they refuse to join for moral objections and im interested in finding out what exactly do they mean by that...