What Do Popcorn Machines and Twitter Have In Common?

Popcorn machines and Twitter both have lots of popcorn in them! Granted, you can’t just scoop a bag of popcorn out of your computer directly from Twitter, BUT you might luck out enough to have some yummy popcorn mailed to you.

@KernelEncore is the Twitter name for Kernel Encore. Kernel Encore makes over 180 different popcorn flavors. That’s a LOT of flavors! They use their Twitter account to tweet some of the flavors hot off the press, err stove? When they have online or store specials, they sometimes make them just for Twitter followers. That’s when you get a chance to get a free goodie. If you live in Orlando, Florida, where they are based, you get to go into the store to get it. If you, like me, live a looooong way away, and you win, they will mail it to you. Now that’s my idea of a tasty tweet!

To enter their Wednesday drawings for 12-flavor sampler packs of their gourmet popcorn, just follow them on Twitter. After that, each week you have to tweet about them at least once. When you do so, make sure you use either @KernelEncore -OR- Kernel Encore. You can talk about their popcorn however you like. One new tip I just discovered last week, that I notice they’ve learned as well. When you want all your followers to read something, never put the @name first. Because of a change Twitter made, those will only go to the @name. By putting it further in the tweet, all your followers can see it AND the @name person still gets it in their mentions box. In other words, don’t put "@KernelEncore" at the beginning of your tweet. Put it in the middle, the end, but not the beginning.

That’s all you have to do. They’ll be searching, they’ll find all our crunchy tweets and they’ll pick one randomly. How great is that!

As they explained, “We'll announce the winner on Twitter sometime each Wednesday. The winner can stop in for a box of their own choices from our available flavors or we'll ship you a variety (our picks).”

I don’t know about you, but as soon as I post this, I’m going to go enter for their drawing next week. :)