E: 24/06 Win 1 of 9 Gadgets with Shortlist (TW) Opens Today at 10am - Hourly

knitnut

toniq wrote: »

I have tweeted to ask is it a chosen hour mark by them or the actual hour mark, expecting zero response as others have asked the same.

x

I asked too a while back but haven't heard anything back yet. Surely the system would crash if everyone retweeted at exactly the same time?

toniq

Giving up on it, wasting tweet time for comps I might actually stand a chance in, thanks Pk for posting,


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Painkiller

"I have been forwarded your e-mail enquiry from our competitions team. In the interest of fairness, this competition mechanism is completely automated and there is no manual control.
The system will pick the tweet entered into twitters database at 10:00:00 – there can be a time delay between this and the tweet publishing, meaning that tweets may appear in a slightly different order."

hannonle

Apologies, but where are you guys finding the winner announcements? I can't see them anywhere.

Painkiller

hannonle wrote: »

Apologies, but where are you guys finding the winner announcements? I can't see them anywhere.

http://specials.shortlist.com/O2PayDay/

Near the bottom of the page

If anyone wants to continue with 15 minute warnings, feel free - I'm abandoning ship.

toniq

Painkiller wrote: »

"I have been forwarded your e-mail enquiry from our competitions team. In the interest of fairness, this competition mechanism is completely automated and there is no manual control.
The system will pick the tweet entered into twitters database at 10:00:00 – there can be a time delay between this and the tweet publishing, meaning that tweets may appear in a slightly different order."

So there system is 5 mins ahead? I might just chuck a tweet in at 11:55 x

tgroom57

Reading the above, sounds as if they queue the tweets to go from twitter into their database. whoever gets their tweet logged in at the o'clock wins the prize. No way to know your place in the queue, will depend on volume of tweets etc. I'm just guessing here.

Most useful info going forward is the times of the winning tweets. good luck all.

DynasticDux

If you check the 12.00 winner - their tweet shows up on the Twitter Feed here http://specials.shortlist.com/O2PayDay/ as 11.59

Lucydoo

what one we tweet for now?!?

DynasticDux

Lucydoo wrote: »

what one we tweet for now?!?

Hi Lucy

You can find the hourly prize & tweet here
http://specials.shortlist.com/O2PayDay

You have to be the 1st person to tweet on the hour - so the next prize is now 2.00pm (Samsung Galaxy Tab A 7.0) - and you have to be the first person to tweet at 2.00pm