Advise thanks

Winningfem

Im fairly new to twitter but tonight i noticed a comp that i had entered, had been won by a guy that had retweeted my retweet of the companies competition post..my name was tagged in the notification i recieved saying congrats to him winning, is that right That he won?

It prob is but just thought id ask

serenity2012

As far as i am aware you cannot win by retweeting a retweet. Has to be the original comp tweet. Contact them and ask because they might not have noticed. Possible he also retweeted the original comp i guess

sammi86

serenity2012 wrote: »

As far as i am aware you cannot win by retweeting a retweet. Has to be the original comp tweet. Contact them and ask because they might not have noticed. Possible he also retweeted the original comp i guess

If it was a manual RT then i guess although unfair, he did retweet eventhough the OP was tagged in the tweet.
Its just unfortunate but maybe contact the company and see what they say?

serenity2012

Thats not what most twitter comps say. they say you have to retweet their original tweet

WeAreGhosts

I block anyone who retweets my retweets because I find it exceptionally lazy.

But yeah, to answer the question, the company should probably have noticed it wasn't a direct retweet.

oliveoyl

WeAreGhosts wrote: »

I block anyone who retweets my retweets because I find it exceptionally lazy.

But yeah, to answer the question, the company should probably have noticed it wasn't a direct retweet.

I read that bots can still retweet your tweets even if you've blocked them, you just don't get a notification, so you don't know about it.

hannonle

They probably searched by hashtag to pick the winner. No idea if it's invalid or not. Contact them and ask.

fortuna93

This doesn't actually do anything if they're using other software other than you not getting the notifications anymore. Tweetdeck for example still shows people who've blocked you

serenity2012

WeAreGhosts wrote: »

I block anyone who retweets my retweets because I find it exceptionally lazy.

But yeah, to answer the question, the company should probably have noticed it wasn't a direct retweet.

I've started doing that. Gets quite annoying when a lot of followers are just retweeting my comp retweets.

Juzza12

I've noticed a huge increase lately in what must be bots, retweeting my tweets, and writing a few words from the comp tweet in the quote bit. I always block them.