I also won a lot of currency to online games (like FIFA). I did manage to go to an event that I won tickets to, but the majority of them were for concerts and events in other countries that I obviously couldn’t go to. They tend to look like this:Īnother very large percentage of the things I won were tickets to events. So that means my win rate was just over half a percent, which is pretty miserable, especially when you consider that a good portion of those winnings were things like logos and graphics, which is Twitter slang for a customized image for use in a gaming or YouTube profile. How many was that? Well, over the 9 months I ran my script, I entered approximately 165,000 contests. I got lucky in that the rate of new contests launched on Twitter is less than the rate that I could retweet, meaning I was able to enter every contest I could find. That gave me long enough to make sure the person I unfollowed had already ended their contest and it kept the follow/unfollow churn rate below the rate limit. Since a lot of contests required following the original poster, I used a FIFO to make sure I was only following the 2000 most recent contest entries. If you have below a few hundred followers, you cannot follow more than 2000 people. Twitter also limits the total number of people you can follow given a certain number of followers.
Tweetadder v4 trial#
Twitter doesn’t publish these numbers, so I had to figure them out by trial and error. They have rate limits which prevent you from tweeting too often, retweeting too aggressively, and creating “following churn”, by rapidly following and unfollowing people. If so, I followed them and retweeted. The most difficult part of this project was preventing the bot from getting banned by Twitter. Some contests require you to follow the original poster, so after discovering a candidate tweet I made sure it wasn’t an entry to a contest, but the original contest itself, and then checked to see if they wanted a follow. I did however see evidence of real people who were manually doing the job of my bot by retweeting hundreds of contests over several hours. I’m not sure if anyone else has done this before, but I didn’t see any evidence of other bots that were behaving like mine. Maybe you’ve actually retweeted it, maybe not, but everyone wants to know: does anyone ever win those contests? To discover the answer to that question, I wrote a Python script that logs into twitter, searches for tweets that say something along the lines of “retweet to win!” and then retweets them. If you’ve ever used Twitter, you’ve probably seen a tweet that looks something like this: This is the story of how I wrote a Twitter bot to automatically enter contests and ended up winning on average 4 contests per day, every day, for about 9 months straight. How I won 4 Twitter contests a day (every day for 9 months straight)
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