Heads up - Rafflecopter/Twitter

StrayCat

Last night I decided to take up Rafflecopters again after a short break.

Much to my dismay I logged into my Twitter earlier and found my account suspended.

I messaged Twitter and they responded that I had an unusual number of blocks or reports of spam on my account, some from people I followed. (They did unsuspend me though). :j

Now considering this account is set up only for Rafflecopters I was quite alarmed. I'm being asked to follow and tweet and now they are marking me as spam, if they didn't want me to enter then surely tweeting/DMing me would be their best bet or I won't know who I should and shouldn't follow/tweet.

Anyhow - I decided to go through all my tweets to see who had blocked me and I found the problem.

A couple of bloggers (that I have found thus far) have asked people to follow and tweet the wrong accounts! for example one asked to do the tweet which included a mention to @dionouk - the account they SHOULD have put was @diono_uk!

Another one asked to follow and tweet at @babymoos (who is nothing to do with the competition at all) - they should have said @Babymoos_com

Anyway, I thought I would share this with you so those who do Rafflecopters are aware to double check what they are being asked to tweet and who to follow because it could end up with you losing your account.

These are the two competitions I've spotted so far that ask to tweet/follow the wrong accounts

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/63903624#Comment_63903624
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/63692549#Comment_63692549

They both close tomorrow anyway but have tweeted both people who run the competitions so that they know.

Luckyone

I would email the blog owners StrayCat.

They could change the tweet so others who are not on MSE or don't look here don't have the same happen to them.

If they can't change the tweet they could leave a message to tell people what the correct tweet is

Also you could leave a message on the two threads to let people know what's happened

LO xxx

StrayCat

Have left a message on both of the threads and had a reply from one of the people who runs one of the competitions on Twitter so they are now aware of it. Awaiting a response from the @Babymoos_com one.

surfboard2

How the hell do you message twitter?

Had no idea one could do that.

mjm3346

simply_tash wrote: »

How the hell do you message twitter?

Had no idea one could do that.

Top towards the right side of your twitter page (next to the search box) is an envelope, click on that to read and send messages.

purplebutterfly

That's interesting - a few weeks ago my Twitter account was suspended for the same reason. I only use it for comping so was only tweeting and retweeting what companies asked me to and I was baffled trying to work out who had reported me for spam.

I was way too lazy to go back through my tweets but suspect it could well be the same problem.

Really appreciate you going to the trouble of posting this, think it will help a lot of people :T

hamsterfan1

I hate to be cynical but could other compers be doing this as a form of cheating?

RavenRae

Good find StrayCat.
I'm certainly going to be a bit more aware of my tweets from rafflecopters now

robbies_gal

i havent had any problems but i do use twitter generally not just for comps