social media comps / shadow bans / advice

xoxlauraxox

I love comping and have just returned to it again... everytime I return to it there are more social media comps (compared to none when I first started). Now it seems nearly all comps involve social media... it looks like i'm on a shadow ban again on twitter... thinking to myself am I wasting my time but its a hobby I enjoy... I really like doing blog competitions but now just don't know... I am an old school comper struggling to come round haha! any tips at all? I have a public group on facebok that I share to and on twitter I try to reply to tweets aswel as retweeting. thinking of just doing the blog comps but no point if even that leads to shadow ban... i've looked at tips and think i've done what I can so thought I would reach out to the lovely forum that started me out on comps 10 years or so ago! thanks in advance

Marg2k8

I don't win much on twitter, so have given up unless it is an amazing prize. I still tweet on some rafflecopter and gleam comps, but try to do a maximum of six in any hour, to avoid getting shadowbanned.

Good luck.

xoxlauraxox

Thank you Marg2k8 I think I may stick to my rafflecopter/gleams but avoid the usual retweet comps. Theres still names on here I recognise from years ago so that has to be a good thing. I stopped last time as I wasn't enoying it anymore even thogh I had a steady flow of wins every month... apart from the annoying shadow ban I am enjoying it again (even with the no wins)

Minnibix

xoxlauraxox wrote: »

Thank you Marg2k8 I think I may stick to my rafflecopter/gleams but avoid the usual retweet comps. Theres still names on here I recognise from years ago so that has to be a good thing. I stopped last time as I wasn't enoying it anymore even thogh I had a steady flow of wins every month... apart from the annoying shadow ban I am enjoying it again (even with the no wins)

Hi Laura I'm not an expert or anything but I haven't had a shadow ban since I stopped doing Gleam and Rafflecopter competitions, I do straight Twitter comps, vary the comment. There is also a site called Social Media Checker, which is as it says a Twitter health checker, sorry I don't know how to post links. I hope this helps you some, doesn't help with the not winning though :D

mjm3346

Minnibix wrote: »

Hi Laura I'm not an expert or anything but I haven't had a shadow ban since I stopped doing Gleam and Rafflecopter competitions, I do straight Twitter comps, vary the comment. There is also a site called Social Media Checker, which is as it says a Twitter health checker, sorry I don't know how to post links. I hope this helps you some, doesn't help with the not winning though :D

Do you mean this one?


https://nicebrains.com/social-media-check/


(You can just copy and paste to put a link in your posts, you don't have to put anything special around it)

Minnibix

mjm3346 wrote: »

Do you mean this one?


https://nicebrains.com/social-media-check/


(You can just copy and paste to put a link in your posts, you don't have to put anything special around it)

Yes I did, thank you :D

ikkle87

I'ts more than likely the gleam and rafflecopter posts causing your shadow ban. Vary your tweets and replys and take a break from twitter every so often and you should be fine x

pinktilgate

Sorry if I’m being daft, but what is a shadow ban?

mjm3346

pinktilgate wrote: »

Sorry if I’m being daft, but what is a shadow ban?

Here is one of the threads (short version you tweet but they don't show to other people but you are none the wiser)



https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5705933/twitter-shadowban

pinktilgate

mjm3346 wrote: »

Here is one of the threads (short version you tweet but they don't show to other people but you are none the wiser)



https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5705933/twitter-shadowban

Thank you so much for this info! I’m back after a long break so this was news to me! x

Mariobug25

Hey Laura, I wondered where you had been - I also recently returned to comping (I had different username before). Still son RC comps even if you are on a shadow ban, they follow the link you post and that will still show even while you are on a ban. I kept getting banned at first when I restarted, but i just took it slowly and replied to tweets more etc and now I don’t seem to get banned, and I enter all the blogs etc x