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Crowdwoo - The Twitter Lottery
- corin_ 15y agoHow many people are opting in thinking "if I lose I can just unfollow straight away"? I slightly want to opt in just to see it unfold, but frankly I don't want to follow three extra people, and I don't want a bunch of people who don't know who I am following me, so I think I'd end up annoyed with the result either way. Nice idea, though.
- dfischer 15y agoKind of a cool concept. Let's see if I'm the lucky winnarrrr!
- Skywing 15y agoI guess the cool thing is that those are all basically HN readers. Would be a pretty solid HN user following.
- Alex3917 15y agoThis application wants to post tweets on your behalf? Umm, no.
- Skywing 15y agoNo, it will not post tweets on your behalf. It will automatically follow the three winners of the lottery, though. That is all.
- Alex3917 15y ago"This application will be able to: * Read Tweets from your timeline. * Update your profile. * Post Tweets on your behalf."
- Skywing 15y agoI don't see how to select a finer grain of control over what Crowdwoo needs, via Twitter's site, though. I've selected Read & Write access, because I need to be able to follow the winners. If there is a way to de-select the ability to post tweets and read timeline then I'd gladly do that. I'll continue to inspect the Twitter docs.
- riskish 15y agoI think that's just what he's capable of doing via twitter's api. He's stated, though, he's only going to have others follow as the guidelines suggested and not post tweets on your behalf.
- simonw 15y agoLanyrd is suffering from this misconception as well. Twitter recently updated the copy on their OAuth sign-in flow to specifically list the abilities that an application would have. Unfortunately, since they don't provide finely grained permissions it isn't actually possible to request just the write permissions your app needs. This leaves users thinking that our app will post tweets on their behalf, when we're actually just asking for write access so we can provide a "follow" button on our site.
- swombat 15y agoHaha, nice. I have a 1.6% chance of winning, at the moment...
- gr366 15y agoI think they should give credit to Dave Winer for the idea. http://scripting.com/stories/2011/05/15/socialMediaBubblePop.html http://scripting.com/stories/2011/05/15/socialMediaBubblePop...
- MattBearman 15y agoI've joined in just out of interest, if I lose I'll follow the winners for at least a month. I never use twitter anyway, and to be honest, if I won the current 'jackpot' of 247 followers, I still wouldn't use twitter much :)
- muppetman 15y agoAre people this desperate to be followed? I don't get it.
- Skywing 15y agoIt's fun to witness the statistics, though. There have been over 1000 unique visitors over the past 2 hours, with an 11% conversion rate.