Thank God for Twitter

February 5, 2008 //

I’ve just written a post about this on the Segala blog but thought it was relevant here because it highlights the usefulness of Twitter, even if only for fun.

We ran a competition for an iPod Touch on the Segala blog to find a new name for our Firefox extension recently. 90 comments and dozens of suggestions later, Aido and I couldn’t find one we liked. So we thought…

As a way of thanking everyone for their contribution, we decided to give away the iPod anyway. So, tonight I pasted everyone’s name into a word document and assigned a number to each one. I then asked my Twitter friends to suggest a number so I could choose the winner. I’m extremely lucky because Pat Phelan picked Mike Butcher’s number.

That’s the good news for Mike. The lucky news for me is that one of Mike’s suggestions was powdrr.com Given that Aido and I came up with POWDR, I think Mike should have won anyway.

Talk about being lucky! And I’m referring to me being lucky, not Mike. Reading back on this post, I’m wondering if we should go with powdrr instead of POWDR. Argh!

Weird huh?