Need Twitter Help!

I am attempting a cheesy marketing stunt that doesn’t involve a six-year old child and need your help. I am going to give away the free Camelbak pictured here: http://www.fatpacking.com/images/Camelbak.jpg. The person that wins will be the first one whose twitter name appears in 100 tweets and re-tweets along with a link to the Fatpacking website.


So for example if your Twitter name is @JoeShlabotnick, and you tweet:


RT: 1st w/100 retweets wins a new Camelbak, details http://tinyurl.com/XXXX Check out Fatpacking, http://www.fatpacking.com @JoeShlabotnick


Then I could do a search on both Fatpacking and @JoeShlabotnick for 100 occurrences and give away the item. Now @LotsOfFollowers, who has a bigger social network, might (hopefully) decide that they want the Camelbak and retweet as


RT: 1st w/100 retweets wins a new Camelbak, details http://tinyurl.com/XXXX Check out Fatpacking, http://www.fatpacking.com @LotsOfFollowers


That’s 126 characters. The tinyurl of the web page with my explanation of the stunt will probably be longer when I generate it and the Twitter ID might be much longer too. And to top it off, the Tweet is pretty confusing.


First question: how do I explain this all in 140 characters? What should my tweet say?
Second question: I only have tens of Twitter followers. How do I disseminate this beyond my newsletter?


I’m doing this so that a link to Fatpacking proliferates throughout Twitter. Twitterers not only have a chance at the Camelbak, their Twitter name also proliferates.


That’s all for now. I’ll resume actual Mildly Informative activity soon. I’m considering sending shorter, more frequent posts.


Remember that all mild information is mirrored on the blog: http://stevesmildlyinformativestuff.blogspot.com/