cigars of the beeper:
Can't we learn more just by coming here to Tintinologist itself?
You can learn a lot here, but there are many ways to enlightenment, grasshopper!
As I said above, the offer was being made to Twitter members by Egmont, and is for a limited time. It was possible to let others on Twitter know immediately, because it allows for messages to be re-tweeted (forwarded to your own followers): I subscribe to Egmont’s Tweets, so I found out; I then immediately re-Tweeted to Tintinologist followers.
To put the offer on here, I had to first check with Egmont that being a subscriber to Twitter wasn’t a condition of the offer, and that they wouldn’t mind it being posted here (it isn’t, and they don’t). I then posted it here: quite a bit of time was lost, and it made for more work.
Look on it as just another string to your communications bow, a new frontier to conquer. :-)