Use Twitter or FriendFeed and win a new Seagate Drive

September 12, 2008 By

Disclaimer: Seagate is one of my sponsors and this post is part of that sponsorship.

Next week Seagate will announce some new hard drives on Tuesday — they are pretty cool drives, I got a preview under embargo that’ll run on Tuesday, September 16th 2008, on FastCompanyTV. Bill Watkins, CEO, will ring the bell at NASDAQ. But here’s a way you can win one of these new drives by doing nothing but using FriendFeed or Twitter.

On Tuesday at noon Eastern I’ll be standing by the Kodak sign in New York City’s Times Square (on side of Marriott Marquis hotel). I’ll have 20 drives. First 20 people to show me what Twitter or FriendFeed account they learned about the contest from will win a drive. So that’s one way you’ll win a drive, but that requires you to be in Times Square on Tuesday at noon. Not that easy for most of you.

But, not only will those 20 people win drives, but the 20 people who they learned about the contest from will also win a drive (we’ll send those to you).

All you need to do is Twitter or FriendFeed about the contest, tell your friends who’ll be in New York on Tuesday to come by and pick up a drive and you’ll win a drive too (these are cool drives, by the way, more about them on Tuesday).

Oh, and what happens if one of the 20 say they learned about the contest from me? Well, we’ll put that drive in a pool and randomly give it away to someone who Twittered or FriendFeeded about it.

Why only Twitter or FriendFeed? Because they both have great search engines that we can use to track your Tweets or FF items.

Make sure you include the word “Seagate” in your post. Also, yes, lawyers are involved and Seagate will have some rules and regulations up shortly and I’ll link to those on Monday.

Some ideas to help you win? If you have friends in NYC, make sure they know about the contest. Blog about your Tweet/FF item. Digg your Tweet/FF. Email your Tweet/FF around.

Any questions?

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  • http://statisticsio.com/ Jason

    Spam fail.

  • http://statisticsio.com Jason

    Spam fail.

  • http://carocat.co.uk/ Cat

    What if I don’t know anyone in NYC? :)

  • http://carocat.co.uk/ Cat

    What if I don’t know anyone in NYC? :)

  • http://djksar.wordpress.com/ DJ Ksar

    very cool. will blog it about and send msgs to my friends in NYC.

  • http://djksar.wordpress.com DJ Ksar

    very cool. will blog it about and send msgs to my friends in NYC.

  • http://bits.samiq.net/ Samiq

    ping back from http://twitter.com/samiq/statuses/919397242

    [... You can win a cool new hard drive just by Twittering! http://tinyurl.com/49woza has the details, when ask say @samiq told you :) via Scoble ... ]

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  • http://bits.samiq.net Samiq

    ping back from http://twitter.com/samiq/statuses/919397242

    [... You can win a cool new hard drive just by Twittering! http://tinyurl.com/49woza has the details, when ask say @samiq told you :) via Scoble ... ]

  • http://www.ultimatequest.net/ Javier A.

    Question: I’m in Argentina, should I even bother with this one? I am pretty sure that by monday, I’ll see the usual “Only open for residents in the US and Canada”, etc. Which sucks big time. Us international users always get the crappiest deals.

  • http://specialbrands.net/ redhat

    This sounds like one of those “Bill Gates is sharing his wealth. I got a check for a million dollars just be sending this mail. Send this mail to earn your own million dollars. This is real, I’m not lying. Honest!” mails.

  • http://www.ultimatequest.net Javier A.

    Question: I’m in Argentina, should I even bother with this one? I am pretty sure that by monday, I’ll see the usual “Only open for residents in the US and Canada”, etc. Which sucks big time. Us international users always get the crappiest deals.

  • http://webhat.wordpress.com/ Daniel W. Crompton

    This sounds like one of those “Bill Gates is sharing his wealth. I got a check for a million dollars just be sending this mail. Send this mail to earn your own million dollars. This is real, I’m not lying. Honest!” mails.

  • http://www.shashi.name/ Shashi Bellamkonda

    Hi Scoble,

    Just a suggestion it will be great to also add the date “Tuesday the 16th” to the post. just my .5 cents.
    Going to Twitter this now. @shashib

    Thanks,

    Shashi

  • http://www.shashi.name Shashi Bellamkonda

    Hi Scoble,

    Just a suggestion it will be great to also add the date “Tuesday the 16th” to the post. just my .5 cents.
    Going to Twitter this now. @shashib

    Thanks,

    Shashi

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    It is a world-wide contest.

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    It is a world-wide contest.

  • Anonymous

    Hey Scoble – I know you can’t be very specific about the product – but can you at least specify if they are internal or external drives? Many of us only have laptops and thus a desktop drive would be useless, but external drive would be very useful ;)

  • http://www.gmail.com Jaanus

    Hey Scoble – I know you can’t be very specific about the product – but can you at least specify if they are internal or external drives? Many of us only have laptops and thus a desktop drive would be useless, but external drive would be very useful ;)

  • http://www.intel.com/go/vproexpert JoshProStar

    NYC – bummer.. :( but I did twitter about it.. go Scoble.. :)

  • http://www.intel.com/go/vproexpert JoshProStar

    NYC – bummer.. :( but I did twitter about it.. go Scoble.. :)

  • Paul

    I resent the lowness of this campaign to get people talking about something that isn’t released yet. What ever happened to releasing a kick-ass product and then letting us decide on our own how great it is?

    I mean, I read your entire post and I’m not sure if I completely understand all the rules. And you haven’t even released them all. You are just confusing me. I love Seagate drives, but now I love them a little less just for pulling this annoying shit.

  • Paul

    I resent the lowness of this campaign to get people talking about something that isn’t released yet. What ever happened to releasing a kick-ass product and then letting us decide on our own how great it is?

    I mean, I read your entire post and I’m not sure if I completely understand all the rules. And you haven’t even released them all. You are just confusing me. I love Seagate drives, but now I love them a little less just for pulling this annoying shit.

  • toneroo

    Paul, chill out. If you don’t want to tweet or blog about it, you don’t have to. What’s so different about this way versus Seagate saying, “we’re releasing some cool new drives on Tuesday.” and you saying in a tweet, “I’m looking forward to finding out what Seagate has up their sleeve, they say there some cool new technology in them.”? Scoble isn’t asking you to say, “Seagate has the best drives on the planet, take my word for it and go buy one of the new ones as soon as they come out on Tuesday.”.

  • toneroo

    Paul, chill out. If you don’t want to tweet or blog about it, you don’t have to. What’s so different about this way versus Seagate saying, “we’re releasing some cool new drives on Tuesday.” and you saying in a tweet, “I’m looking forward to finding out what Seagate has up their sleeve, they say there some cool new technology in them.”? Scoble isn’t asking you to say, “Seagate has the best drives on the planet, take my word for it and go buy one of the new ones as soon as they come out on Tuesday.”.

  • http://3magin8.com/1 3magin8

    I agree, twitter and friendfeed do have great search functions.
    Very useful.
    Thanks for the contest news!

  • http://3magin8.com/1 3magin8

    I agree, twitter and friendfeed do have great search functions.
    Very useful.
    Thanks for the contest news!

  • http://www.anando.org/ Anando

    Damn it Scoble, I will be in NYC and that too at the time square on Thursday! Couldnt you wait for 2 more days ;o)

  • http://www.anando.org Anando

    Damn it Scoble, I will be in NYC and that too at the time square on Thursday! Couldnt you wait for 2 more days ;o)

  • Prokofy Neva

    Well I might come to this just because it would be fun to meet you and hear you in person, but I have to say, what do you do with a hard drive of this type? I mean, does it play the Internet by itself, or would it requite having to hook up other things to it to get it to work? Is it something that just offices would use or an individual?

  • Prokofy Neva

    Well I might come to this just because it would be fun to meet you and hear you in person, but I have to say, what do you do with a hard drive of this type? I mean, does it play the Internet by itself, or would it requite having to hook up other things to it to get it to work? Is it something that just offices would use or an individual?

  • http://www.cproppe.com/ Colleen

    Ah… viral marketing at it’s best…

  • http://www.cproppe.com Colleen

    Ah… viral marketing at it’s best…

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  • http://www.dotcult.com/ Ryan

    Viral marketing, or bribing people to spam twitter and friendfeed? Sounds more like the latter to me.

  • http://www.dotcult.com Ryan

    Viral marketing, or bribing people to spam twitter and friendfeed? Sounds more like the latter to me.

  • Rocky Barbanica

    Seagate is our sponsor. If we plug them once in a while it’s not a big deal. Wouldn’t you?

  • Rocky Barbanica

    Seagate is our sponsor. If we plug them once in a while it’s not a big deal. Wouldn’t you?

  • http://www.uzee.tk/ UzEE

    Nice chance to win. Too bad I don’t know anyone there.

  • http://www.uzee.tk UzEE

    Nice chance to win. Too bad I don’t know anyone there.

  • Christopher Coulter

    will ring the bell

    On your mark, drop stock, drop. NYT to NASDAQ, change of venue not helping. Stock up on WDC.

    And I believe the SEC frowns on insider forward-looking statements that include information about financial prospects, plans and objectives for future operations, economic conditions, trends and known uncertainties…blah blah blah.

  • Christopher Coulter

    will ring the bell

    On your mark, drop stock, drop. NYT to NASDAQ, change of venue not helping. Stock up on WDC.

    And I believe the SEC frowns on insider forward-looking statements that include information about financial prospects, plans and objectives for future operations, economic conditions, trends and known uncertainties…blah blah blah.

  • Gregg

    I don’t understand at all what you want people to do on Twitter and what Twitter account you want them to tell you if they go to meet you at Times Square. Am I supposed to tweet of friendfeed something about Seagate and then tell you my Twitter or FriendFeed account name at times Square? Am I supposed to get somebody else to tweet or friendfeed about the drives and then tell you what their Twitter or FriendFeed account name is? If I go to Times Square and tell you that I learned about it form you on Scobleizer.com, or your Twitter feed, or your FriendFeed feed then I don’t get the drive, but some random other person gets the drive? This is all very confusing. I wish you would explain it more clearly.

  • Gregg

    I don’t understand at all what you want people to do on Twitter and what Twitter account you want them to tell you if they go to meet you at Times Square. Am I supposed to tweet of friendfeed something about Seagate and then tell you my Twitter or FriendFeed account name at times Square? Am I supposed to get somebody else to tweet or friendfeed about the drives and then tell you what their Twitter or FriendFeed account name is? If I go to Times Square and tell you that I learned about it form you on Scobleizer.com, or your Twitter feed, or your FriendFeed feed then I don’t get the drive, but some random other person gets the drive? This is all very confusing. I wish you would explain it more clearly.

  • http://crueltobekind.org/ Nicole Simon

    I think if I bring yet one more device through customs they will not let me pass. this time every security scan was done twice and I had to remove my bag with ‘the tech stuff’ to be inspected. I think a hard drive will be pushing it, but looking forward seeing you again in NY ;)

  • http://crueltobekind.org Nicole Simon

    I think if I bring yet one more device through customs they will not let me pass. this time every security scan was done twice and I had to remove my bag with ‘the tech stuff’ to be inspected. I think a hard drive will be pushing it, but looking forward seeing you again in NY ;)

  • boring

    Let me guess … more capacity for about the same price as the previous disk.

  • boring

    Let me guess … more capacity for about the same price as the previous disk.

  • webthought

    how nauseating!

  • webthought

    how nauseating!

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