I seem to be gaining more followers on twitter than I'm losing and as of 5/16/12 at 8pm, I'm just 14 away from 1000. I'm amazed and honored, sincerely.

When I hit 750 followers, I gave away a $25 gift card to one random follower and created a storify page where I highlighted a favorite tweet from most of my followers. That was arduous, but fun.

Now, I'm not a rich man so I can't just give everybody lots of money for following me (though if I were, I might do that. give me lottery tickets!). So, instead, I'm going to have a threeway!

Wait, no. I'm going to giveaway three things! Some words you shouldn't portmanteau, apparently.

1. To ONE random twitter follower, I will give their choice of: a dinner out with me, or a gift card to their preferred restaurant for $35, or an amazon.com gift card for $35. If the follower is located far from me, the first option probably won't be possible.

2. To my DC-area twitter followers, I will give a PARTY at Science Club DC. I still need to actually coordinate with them how and when I'll do it, but there you go. Everybody will be welcome to come, not just DC'ers, but location again comes into play for most of us. (Thanks to @DateMeDCBlog for the great idea and @scienceclub for being up for it)

3. And to all my followers, I will give an online video of myself doing something. Everybody is welcome to send me suggestions as to what I should do a video of, and I'll make a decision and post it. This is scary for me as I dread the idea of being "on camera" but what the hell. Please send suggestions via comments on this post or on twitter with #paulidin1000 as the hashtag.

And thank you, everybody, for following me!