Sorry for not updating sooner. I’ve been very busy at my day job and afterwards with work on the next Project Peru site. My mind has been a-buzz all week!
So no, I didn’t win jack from the MoonFruit contest. Didn’t even get a “wow, this guy’s site idea sucks balls!” (or something along those lines) tweet from @moontweet.
Only one of my friends tweeted about it and left a comment on the site (thanks @DonnaVitan!) even after I e-mailed a bunch of people that I figured would totally help me out. Am I bit tweaked about that? Ya of course. Don’t want to make a sob story of a blog posty, but WTF?
What the hell happened here? Why was this such an epic fail in networking? This is something that will haunt for quite a while I think.
I know the people I e-mailed when to the site, and some people from Twitter went to the link I tweeted about (who knows if @moontweet was one of them). In 6 days, the site received 136 unique visitors, with 900 page views. That’s about the only thing that I found remotely successful about this little endeavour.
Sorry MoonFruit, I will work on my lame YouTube video acting and solarizing Photoshop filters for the next contest :Pem
Oh and the icing on the cake was that they ended up giving out morn 3 iPods after the creative contest was finished!
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Well I just woke up after a long night of waiting for the Twitter iron to get hot (Twiron?) and have my creative entry (http://randommoonfruit.info) for Moonfruit’s contest to get noticed by them. @moontweet seems to come on at very late times and retweet (aka RT) creative entry tweets. The norm seems to spam #moonfruit and @moontweet sees it. I’m not sure if they RT everything just what they like. I don’t think it’s everything because I did not receive a RT.
This has left me wondering: Is my entry lame? A few times in the past I’ve had (what I thought at the time was a smash hit) fall on it’s face.
My bit.ly links are getting hits at least and the site has had over 70 uniques in under a day. Here are some of the bit.ly links:
Twitter Sara Palin #moonfruit http://bit.ly/KGc0x
Michael Jackson #moonfruit http://bit.ly/1DMhI
Nortel #moonfruit http://bit.ly/3ZAYH8
I just finished launching and announcing http://randommoonfruit.info. A site with a little twist! Hopefully it will bring you a few giggles and for ME – a free iPod Touch! So please visit and Tweet about it: http://randommoonfruit.info/ Make sure to use the #moonfruit hash tag to have your own chance to win a MacBook Pro for free!
This idea came around from the Twitter contest Moonfruit (http://www.moonfruit.com) has been having. By using a #moonfruit hash tag in a tweet, Tweeple are being entered for 1 daily draw of a free MacBook Pro (details found here: http://www.moonfruit.com/macbook-pro.html). Moonfruit is also giving away 3 free iPod Touches for the best creative ideas. 2 have already been given away.. I just hope I’m in time for being considered for the third!
I’ll keep you posted on events as they unfold.
