Blog of Mr. Tweet

Lots of awesome (and funny) tips by our users (some samples below)

Super Useful Software:

Self Control.app Google it. It’s wonderful. You can select the domains you want blocked
- Paul Carroll

Give Up:

I don’t. For me, the question is, how do you avoid working when using tools like Twitter and Facebook?
- Laura Anderson-Gavin

Best State Of Denial

I have no problem working w- ooooohh!!! Something shiny on Twitter!!
- dbabbitt

Making It Hard To Use Twitter:

Simple! use Gravity and the Facebook widget on my N97 and try to ignore the beeps and trinkles of them both alerting me to reply to tweets LIKE THIS ONE!
- awallafaShagba

Turn It Off

Turn them OFF. Unfortunately, if they are on, I just can’t resist the temptation!
- Astrid and Rene

It Is Good To Be Distracted!

I believe that personal distractions are good for the soul and that since I work alone at home, the connectness actually improves my productivity. Otherwise, working at home would be a social drag. Actually joined a number of new networking sites today and working to streamline yet increase my twittering and updating to further increase the portions of soul food! I think it’s working for me.
- Lordeeme

Healthiest Tradeoff

I have forgone smoke breaks in lieu of Twitter and Facebooking.
- Chrissa

Best One Of All…

I try to follow fairly boring people.
- Brett Patterson

It’s that time of the week again, folks! This week we’re giving away one cool The GodTwitter T-shirt. Made by the awesomesauce Tony Gigov (@tonygigov), creator of the Twitter Nonsense Comic strip. And who wouldn’t want to rock this shirt at their next tweet-up?

Now, are you ready to win it? Here’s, what you need to do:

• Leave a comment below answering the following question: How do you avoid personal distractions when using tools like Twitter & Facebook while working?
• You only need to answer this question once.
• Winner will be chosen randomly. The winner will receive one (1) GodTwitter T-Shirt in white or black (your choice).
• Entries can be submitted until Friday, July 3rd, 12:01 a.m. PST / 3:01 a.m. EST.

Good luck!

Today, Mr. Tweet will start its first weekly giveaway! This week Mr. Tweet is giving away one of the stylish character-based designer USB flash drives better known as a Mimobot.  The list of characters range from geek flavored Halo and Star Wars designs to talented pop-artist creations such as Gigglebyte and Ninja Domo.

Which one of their many awesome character designs are we giving away?

Giveaway: 8GB Zombie Tiki God (8GB) USB flash drive

Zombie Tiki God by heyimlindsayp is one of the six Vimobot Design Contest winners, created and chosen by the MIMOBOT community

UPDATED:

The winner of an 8GB Tiki God Mimobot in our first Giveaway of the Week is army wife Shirley Brondum (@sbrondum)! Shirley recommended @Skipinc as the a non-profit who uses Twitter brilliantly. Here’s what Shirley had to say:

“#ilovemrtweet I believe @skipinc uses twitter brilliantly as a non-profit organization because not only do they send care packages to our troops, but they constantly use twitter to keep us in the “know” of things in the media which are military related. For example, I am a Army wife who’s husband is serving a second term overseas, but this time it’s much different. This year we have a newborn son, which makes it very difficult for me to be able to send much needed items overseas to my husband.” (Click here to continue reading…)

Best Comment Wins This Awesome Mimobot!

In order to win an 8GB Zombie Tiki God Mimobo, just answer this question in the comments or on Twitter using the hashtag #ilovemrtweet starting today

Which Non-Profit Have You Seen Use Twitter Brilliantly?

Details

This week’s giveaway will end on Friday, June 12th at 12:01 a.m. (3:01a.m. EST). We will choose a winner at random on Friday and announce the winner at noon PST (3pm EST).

This week’s giveaway was made possibly thanks to by Mimoco (@mimobot). Be sure to follow founder and CEO, Evan, for more mimobot goodness!