Packet8 Business Level Phone ExtensionWow, this has been a quick cycle from idea to reality. As you know from reading the blog I have been enjoying myself on Twitter lately, and I have been taken back by the size of the community. I think Twitter will grow to be a lot bigger than it is now, but its already huge!!

Twitter allows people access to their data, and the Twitter site, through the Twitter API. After being on Twitter a while I decided I wanted to host a contest, to give away a free iPod Nano & iTunes Gift Cards to my new tweeps on Twitter. When I went looking for someone to manage my contest for me I didn’t find anything available, I had to build a custom application to plug into the Twitter API to make my Twitter contest work.

Of course I saw an opportunity here, if I needed to go through all this trouble to manage a Twitter contest, I figured others would face the same challenge. I built a website to host, manage, and promote Twitter Contests sponsored by a variety of people. We just opened the site up to a soft launch, meaning there is just 1 contest up on the site, and it has not been promoted yet online or in the media.

Before the end of March we will officially launch the site with multiple live contests, and an online and offline media promotion campaign. If you have a blog or if you are on Twitter, please help us out by spreading the word!

Here is the link to the Twitter Contest website TwitrContest.com. Be sure to enter our contest too, we are giving away a iPod Nano and two iTunes Gift Cards, three people will win, it could be you! Good luck, and if you aren’t there already, get on Twitter! We have a link to them on the contest site if you need to get started.