Twitter comps - am I wasting my time?

glitter03

I have been really lucky on twitter and have won quite alot on there!

Its only a click of a button so it is easy enough to do.

I only have 150 followers

Freydis

I started entering twitter comps late jan/early feb i think re-tweeting 1,000's. I got my first win last week on twitter worth over £100 :j with just over 1,000 RTs on it. They only take a second to enter but i was thinking about giving them up until i got the win

ecogirl1

won a fair bit on twitter! still waiting for a few bits though! keep at it!! good luck xx

Mummyof2boys

I've also won a fair bit, just keep at it. I find the best day for comps are Fridays

tgroom57

pixelwife wrote: »

Thank you all for such quick responses. Nice to hear that a couple of you are winning so it's not a complete waste of time necessarily! Just frustrating isn't it. I suppose I just figured if I've entered 100s and 100s of competitions, then surely the odds state I should have had a win... patience was never my strong suit!

I'll keep going and report back if I get lucky!

Absolutely not. If it were truly random then the odds of you winning the 101st competition are exactly the same as the odds of you winning your 1st competition. You don't 'earn' wins by entering more competitions, only by extra entries in a single comp.

I am less enthusiastic about RT competitions - I'm not convinced that they are (always) fairly administered - mostly because I don't understand how the RT works (hashtags, I understand). What about retweets that start RT....? Because when I press the retweet button mine never starts RT.... then there are hashtags and @replies to get right. And how many you're allowed (much abuse there). And those sad twitter feeds that are just competition Retweets for a mess of facemasks, tickets, high heels and other low value items.

I find twitter more useful for notification of comps.
Good luck all !

Marg2k8

tgroom57 wrote: »

And those sad twitter feeds that are just competition Retweets for a mess of facemasks, tickets, high heels and other low value items.
Good luck all !

That is probably my twitter feed - those and the mag daily tweets make up 90% of what I tweet about. :rotfl:

grrbtn

I also enter Twitter competitions, but have to agree with what other say and that is, I only enter them as it is just a couple of clicks on my mouse. if there was more effort involved I would definitely drop the twitter entries.

toniq

It's swings and roundabouts, I went 3 months without a single twitter win then had 6 in 8 days, for a few clicks it is def worth the effort x

clockworkelf

I've entered around 3,000 twitter competitions. Still haven't won anything.

John_Aloisi

If you want some advice the people I see a lot of people regularly winning on twitter who plaster pictures of their kids on their profile and then put something like 'I'm the most dedicated parent in the world, everything I win goes to my sick children'.

If you don't have kids put a picture of yourself looking exhausted and put something like 'I spend every waking minute raising money for charity'.

I should expand and say I'm very cynical on how winners are picked. I genuinely think say you're entering to win a butter knife if you changed your profile before entering to 'I'm the worlds biggest butter knife fan' you would probably win. I think they do favour people with more followers as well.

By the way you'll notice people who win a lot on twitter, obviously you can only click the retweet button once, so what they do is they copy and paste the entry tweet, precede the entry with RT and then paste it repeatedly sometimes several times a day. It's disappointing but this definitely works.