I am so participating in this contest, AC always give out fun prizes. The last time I won an AC tote bag and notebook/pen set made out of recycled paper. I use my tote bag every day, it’s now become my purse. The Associated Content Twitter Challenge has several requirements:

1. You have to have a Twitter account (it’s free and it can help you promote your work!) and you have to follow @acnews which is the official Twitter account of Associated Content. With your Twitter account, you have to retweet AC’s contest announcements followed by #acsweeps.

Now you might wonder what retweeting and hashtags(#) mean but it’s not that difficult to do. First, you take a look at @acnews tweets and copy the tweet that has contest announcements. Then in your Twitter dashboard you type in the words RT, followed by @acnews and paste AC’s Twitter challenge announcement. After the announcement text is pasted, type in #acsweeps. The hashtag is used for Twitter trends, it will show up on the right hand side of your Twitter dashboard if enough people use it and make AC a popular Twitter topic.

@writingdivas RT @acnews Take the AC Twitter Challenge! http://bit.ly/WN1GH You could win a netbook or other fabulous prizes. #acsweeps

This is the exact retweet that I sent from my Twitter account. Do not forget @acnews part in your retweet, AC will get a notice when for this retweet with the help of @ and that is how your retweet will count as an entry in this contest!

2. You have to use Twitter to promote your own work by tweeting a url to your favorite piece of your own AC content. Again, you are asked to use a hashtag for this entry, #bestofac. You can do this once a week for the duration of the contest. Each link to your article that is tweeted will create an additional entry, giving you better chances of winning! You can also use a different piece of content every week.

Patrick Swayze ‘Dirty Dancing’ Movie Star Dies at 57 @ http://aclnk.com/ar2174763 #bestofac

That is an example of my latest article published on Associated Content, but I added #bestofac as the rules stated. Just copy and paste your article title, followed by the url to the article. Copy and paste your .html url of the published piece, not the url from your browser. It is also the same .html link that is sent in AC’s “You’ve been published!” e-mail.

3. Login to your AssociatedContent account and look under Assignments. There is a “AC Twitter Challenge” that you need to claim. You have to use this assignment and publish a summary of your Twitter challenge experience. Carefully read all the posted requirements inside this assignment! This is what you have to have in your published article:

(1) A link to your profile on Twitter
(2) A list of some of the interesting people you follow
(3) An overview of how you went about promoting your content, and the results of your efforts

The Associated Content Twitter Challenge starts today and ends October 15th, 2009. Everyone who participates will be entered in a sweepstakes, and six lucky prize winners will be randomly selected on October 19th.

If you are participating, please let me know! My Twitter account is writingdivas. Good luck everyone, but I really need a ASUS Eee PC Netbook Laptop!