Tweet your favorite item in Makers Market / Boing Boing Bazaar to win it

Make and Boing Boing are holding a contest to win your favorite item in the Makers Market / Boing Boing Bazaar.

Here's how to enter:

1. Look around Makers Market / Boing Boing Bazaar and pick out your favorite product of value $500 US or less. You can pick a more expensive product, in which case, if you win, the first $500 is on us.

2. If you're not already following the Makers Market Twitter feed, do so by visiting this link or by tweeting "follow @themakersmarket". Contest winners will be notified using Twitter's "direct message" feature, and if you're not following us, we can't message you, and you can't win.

3. Tweet the URL of your favorite product, and the URL of the contest landing page (http://bit.ly/9p97ad), and make sure you include "@themakersmarket" so we receive your tweet. We recommend cutting and pasting the following text into your twitter window...

Tweet your favorite item @themakersmarket to win it! http://bit.ly/9p97ad Mine is:

...followed by the URL of your favorite product. You will probably need to use a URL shortener to make it all fit into a tweet's 140 characters. We find bit.ly works well.

Eleven winners will be selected randomly from among tweets received before 11:59 p.m. PDT on July 15, 2010. One first-place winner will receive their tweeted choice of products from among those for sale on Makers Market having value of $500 US or less. If your favorite product costs more than $500, the first $500 is on us. Ten runners-up will receive $25 toward their choice of products from among those for sale on Makers Market.

Good luck and happy tweeting! Please see the contest landing page for more details, and official rules.

• [Eric Ragle]

  Well as someone who has succumbed to the pressure that is Twitter, I must say that I would be delighted to get my chubby paws on the Cavorite Cannon. I have not-so-secretly lusted after it for some time.

• [sparkdale]

  “Void outside US.” Boo-urns!

• [pjcamp]

  Not worth it. Not if I have to join the Twit crowd.

• [Talia]

  Fun, count me in. I would not at all mind laying my grubby little paws on some of those items. :)

• [License Farm]

  Oh, you clever mutants. Finally got me to take a good steamy look around. I’ve bookmarked a bunch of stuff; I’ll have to whittle down what I like best. And now I know what I’m getting my stepmother for her birthday, too.

• [hassenpfeffer]

  This is swell. Thanks, mutants!

• [kidfunctional]

  oh no, i’m a euromutant, what a bust… (had my eye on a cheap item too, the 500 couldn’t include shipping could it? ;) )

• [freddiefraggles]

  Meh, stinky US-only rules! :( And I have protected tweets as well anyway, so this was doomed from the start I guess.

• [Astragali]

  How nice. Is there to be a separate contest for those who choose not to succumb to the inanity of Twitter?

  Thought not.

  Mark (who doesn’t use bloody Facebook, either)