Tips on winning Twitter competitions

LindaLou72

Hi! I'm in a bit of a dry spell at the moment, no wins for several months now. I thought I had a particularly good chance with a couple of rafflecopter comps recently, since they didn't have many entries and I was ticking all the boxes every day. But no joy, it seems.

I've actually never won a competition that involves Twitter, and I'm wondering if there's something I've been doing wrong. I don't use Twitter for anything other than entering comps (so nobody else has to read the constant stream of advertising I spew out accordingly), so I don't know much about it.

When a comp says you need to follow and retweet, I can do the 'follow' OK, and then I click on 'retweet' under the message. Is that all I have to do, or should I be tweeting a message on the company's Twitter page as well, or something else?

For that matter, has anyone else here won a Twitter comp? I wonder why I've been having such rotten luck with them.

Thanks in advance for responses.

CupcakeLisa

I entered over 1500 twitter comps before I won one

nelie

You just need to be clicking on the retweet button.

Remember a lot of twitter competitions have a HUGE amount of people entering them, especially compared to the begining of the year, I was winning almost every day...

Now it's once/twice a week...

You just have to keep looking for them And keep going! x

Marg2k8

I have won on twitter, but the ratio of tweets to wins is probably only 1 in 1000. What you are doing sounds right. Perhaps tweet occasionally to other compers, even if it is only to say "congratulations on winning", or tweet to the company runnng the promotion saying something like "I love that dress". Whether it helps or not, I don't know.

strewth71

I don't often win on twitter but have had a few wins over the years, I make sure that I tweet the odd normal tweet a few times every day. Things like "Off to make a brew" or "Busy morning" rubbish stuff but it shows that I am real and not a bot.

mah1g09

Like you I only use twitter for entering comps and usually only enter those where you just have to click the follow and retweet buttons.
I had my first twitter win about a month ago of a £50 voucher and that was through just retweeting, and there was over 2000 retweets on it.
Just shows though that is is worth entering, as they don't take much time and you never know you may win something!
Hope your first twitter win comes soon!

starrybee

I copy and paste the tweet as well, and @tag the company in it. That way they definitely see it.

I think all my wins have come from doing it that way.

LindaLou72

Thanks everyone! Maybe I should send a normal tweet from time to time.

Starrybee, can you tell me what you mean by copying and pasting the tweet? - Is it on the company's website? And how do you tag the company in it?

nelie

starrybee wrote: »

I copy and paste the tweet as well, and @tag the company in it. That way they definitely see it.

I think all my wins have come from doing it that way.

You can disqualify you if it's a ''proper'' company with T+C - ones such as tesco and asda for example.

Some dislike you to do this as well so make sure, if there are T+C and they want you to RT - press the button, not copy and paste or quote RT.

liz545

I've won a couple of Twitter comps - mostly small stuff like vouchers and tickets, but I recently won a bigger one (trip to Paris, as yet unbooked). I think a lot of the people running twitter comps do look through and try and pick a winner who's a 'real person' if that makes sense - i.e. not a comper. I think it's kind of unfair, but I can understand why they do it. So my twitter account is probably 70% other stuff, 30% comping - I don't want to annoy the people who follow me for the non-comp stuff I tweet with constant comp RTs. It means I have to be more selective about what I enter, and tbh most of the comps I enter are still the normal online form types. If it means not entering the ones to win a DVD, I can live with that!

gizmobenny

It does sometimes help if you interact and "talk" to the company too.
I do this if I really fancy the prize