Twitter Competitions Ending Today (Regularly Updated)

Bonnie151

I'm launching this thread to have one place for all Twitter competitions ending on the current day. These competitions can get a bit lost amongst all the others on the board and this thread will provide a central place to easily post and find "flash" Twitter competitions.

ANYONE can post Twitter competitions in this thread! If you spot a Twitter competition ending on the same day that has not been posted elsewhere, please use the Post Reply button to add it to the thread.


Twitter competitions with a longer lead time should be posted as normal in their own thread.


Thanks and good luck everyone! :j

(will kick off in next post with competition ending tonight thanks to Becky004 :T )

Bonnie151

Ends 10:00PM 29/01

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becky004

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comping_cat

Im not sure this will work - surely its better just to post them with their days end date? If you look at this thread in a couple of days time, it will be full of expired competitions! Will we also be having one for Facebook comps?

Something similar is often tried with daily comps (such as the Classic FM one) but always ends up being posted daily instead as it suits the majority better that way.

Bonnie151

comping_cat wrote: »

Im not sure this will work - surely its better just to post them with their days end date? If you look at this thread in a couple of days time, it will be full of expired competitions! Will we also be having one for Facebook comps?

Something similar is often tried with daily comps (such as the Classic FM one) but always ends up being posted daily instead as it suits the majority better that way.

There's a (small) discussion about it here: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3679855 if you (and anyone else) could maybe discuss your thoughts there? Thanks

The point of the thread is that there will be lots of expired comps but that these comps (e.g. ones posted at 12:00PM with a 3:00PM deadline that day) won't get lost amongst the many other comps posted as this thread would be regularly be bumped to the first page. People like me then wouldn't need to scan all the posts each time we log in to make sure there's none ending in the next hour or so.

Happy to discuss via PM or in the Competitions Discussion thread. At the end of the day, if people use this thread and it works, great. If no one wants to use it, it's no big deal.

hdh74

I would find having expired comps easy to find very useful. Can think about whether I want to keep following or not.

becky004

comping_cat wrote: »

Im not sure this will work - surely its better just to post them with their days end date? If you look at this thread in a couple of days time, it will be full of expired competitions! Will we also be having one for Facebook comps?

Something similar is often tried with daily comps (such as the Classic FM one) but always ends up being posted daily instead as it suits the majority better that way.

Playing devils advocate as I am fairly new to the forum, but do think it is a good idea. You can bookmark this thread to check on it throughout the day. It will be bumped to first page as new comps are added and for those working their way through the pages if they have it bookmarked they can check at intervals to see if there are any new ones so they don't miss out, as I have seen posts with people complaining that they missed out because it was bumped back to first page.
Facebook have comps on such a massive scale I agree it wouldn't be feasible but with Twitter it is only a couple or so a day that end that day so it is far more manageable. This is of course just my opinion and no offence is intended to anyone xx

comping_cat

Bonnie151 wrote: »

There's a (small) discussion about it here: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3679855 if you (and anyone else) could maybe discuss your thoughts there? Thanks

The point of the thread is that there will be lots of expired comps but that these comps (e.g. ones posted at 12:00PM with a 3:00PM deadline that day) won't get lost amongst the many other comps posted as this thread would be regularly be bumped to the first page. People like me then wouldn't need to scan all the posts each time we log in to make sure there's none ending in the next hour or so.

Happy to discuss via PM or in the Competitions Discussion thread. At the end of the day, if people use this thread and it works, great. If no one wants to use it, it's no big deal.

But the whole point of the main board is not to have bumped threads - only certain magazine comps are exempt from this. I really dont think a thread of loads of expired comps (because as you say, they expire after a couple of hours) really benefits the majority on the board.

There are a lot of people on here who do not use twitter, so this one continuously being bumped, along with other twitter comps being posted, will jam up the board.

The comp you posted just now that finishes tonight, ok, hasnt been posted (i assume) already - but it started on the 26th Jan - what is stopping someone 'finding' it on its last day and posting it in here, when it might have been posted on the 26th already. If there are others like me out there, i enter so many competitions, i dont always remember if i have already entered it or not, so by adding it here could mean people enter twice and then disqualify themselves.

I dont go into the discussion thread, and i would think most people dont, so although i will post this in there, i dont think many people apart from regulars in that thread will see it, which is why ive also posted in here. You said yourself its a small discussion, so hardly the wishes of the majority on here.

cornishpasty1

Bonnie151 wrote: »

I'm launching this thread to have one place for all Twitter competitions ending on the current day. These competitions can get a bit lost amongst all the others on the board and this thread will provide a central place to easily post and find "flash" Twitter competitions.

ANYONE can post Twitter competitions in this thread! If you spot a Twitter competition ending on the same day that has not been posted elsewhere, please use the Post Reply button to add it to the thread.


Twitter competitions with a longer lead time should be posted as normal in their own thread.


Thanks and good luck everyone! :j

(will kick off in next post with competition ending tonight thanks to Becky004 :T )

becky004 wrote: »

Playing devils advocate as I am fairly new to the forum, but do think it is a good idea. You can bookmark this thread to check on it throughout the day. It will be bumped to first page as new comps are added and for those working their way through the pages if they have it bookmarked they can check at intervals to see if there are any new ones so they don't miss out, as I have seen posts with people complaining that they missed out because it was bumped back to first page.
Facebook have comps on such a massive scale I agree it wouldn't be feasible but with Twitter it is only a couple or so a day that end that day so it is far more manageable. This is of course just my opinion and no offence is intended to anyone xx

Thanks for posting this Bonnie151 :A we can see how it goes eh :j

becky004 if you click subscribe thread above you would get an email every time someones posts a twitter comp in here and therefore shouldn't miss any :j

Good luck everyone :beer:

Iggy1313

I can see both sides of this debate. what I tend to do is keep on checking todays end date and I assume that new twitter comps will (and do) appear on there throughout the day.

if it gets to be a problem in the main thread, could this thread live in the regular comps threads? maybe as a sticky? although as there arent any stickys in there atm I assume the mods dont want stickys in there!

I like entering the twitter ones, they are like instant wins, although I havnt won a twittwr comp yet so fingers crossed!

comping_cat

Just wanted to put something Nicky63 put in the discussion thread, as it explains everything i was trying to say so much better than i did -

Also where does it all end? we've had these discussions time and time again, "should there be a Facebook only thread" "should there be a Twitter only thead" "should all ITV be in one thread" and the overwhelming response has always been NO. The rule was set after a great deal of debate and a lot of upset, if it has an end date then it's posted on the main forum as a separate competition.