News flash from our HQ: HostelBookers are launching a groundbreaking competition based around social networking site Twitter!

Facebook may have been the original internet phenomenom, but Twitter (which has hit the headlines of late over the incredibly fast uptake of breaking stories) is now becoming one of the most popular social networks on the web… (Find out more about Twitter here.)

With it’s emphasis on live and interactive mobile experience, Twitter is an increasingly relevant tool in the modern travel community. Stephen Fry is a big fan of “twit-mate recommendations” when on the road, whilst The Guardian Travel have recently been using it for a series of live blogging ‘TwiTrips, relying solely on other Twitterers to help discover the destination.

Offering the chance to win a week in Amsterdam for two, HostelBookers will be running a Twitter ‘Easter Egg Hunt’ from Monday 6 to Thursday 9 April!

A very special (and mobile…) egg will be backpacking around Europe over these four days running up to the Easter weekend, and ‘tweeting’ helpful budget travel tips about the cities it visits on the HostelBookers Twitter page.

The name of the game? Follow that egg and guess which four cities it travels to from the hints and images it adds to Twitter every day! (You can play along here too – we’ll display a round-up of the day’s Tweets on the blog.)

To enter the prize draw for the seven nights’ accommodation at St. Christopher’s in Amsterdam, simply head over to the HostelBookers competition page and send your answers in before midday (GMT) on 10 April.

Although the competition should be entered at the end of the hunt, there’s an added bonus for those followers keeping a close eye on the egg’s progress – at the end of the day, it will be relaxing somewhere in a bar and offering a complimentary drink to the first 10 people to guess it’s final location and head down to join in for a drink!

To enter the competition (and for more info), see here.

Good luck, and happy hunting…