Article about guy who automated TW competition entries

centsible

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/08/i-wrote-a-bot-that-won-twitter-contests/

Apparently it entered him in approx 165,000 competitions over 9 months, and he won approx 1000.

I like the way he thinks that percentage of wins is 'pretty miserable' :rotfl:

hamsterfan1

cheating person (expletive deleted)

jaibaby

Well

He seems to be American - so he wouldn't qualify in 90% (a guess) of comps on this board - some T&Cs say that auto entries will be deleted.

What a cheat!

riot_star

He must win some right crap...

toniq

I had to block him on twitter as he was ripping my timeline even my personal tweets, now I know why!

RAP_2

How can you enter 165k comps with 150k tweets? Or did he delete 15k?

To be honest looking at most of the tat that he won, he is welcome to it. Yet another reason to give twitter a wide berth.

riot_star

But most importantly...did he win a fish slice? Because if he didn't the whole thing was just pointless really :P

hamsterfan1

riot_star wrote: »

But most importantly...did he win a fish slice? Because if he didn't the whole thing was just pointless really :P

I want a new fish slice , mine is so old it's disintegrating but I have better things to spend my money on

Crystal_Green

Don't knock the fish slices they're quite nice, made of stainless steel with a very discreet web address on the handle - I have one!

riot_star

I'm not knocking it, I'm determined to win one of those bad boys!

emiai

If he is in the US - wouldn't he have to pay tax on all his winnings. Fine if you are winning things of value, but if hes winning tupperware lids.. it would be a waste of money.

I can imagine he isn't the only one using automated programs to win things.