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Solid proof was sent to the company several times. They chose to ignore it and even claim that I violated their rules by entering multiple times, which I never

Solid proof was sent to the company several times. They chose to ignore it and even claim that I violated their rules by entering multiple times, which I never did. I have 84 followers, what good what it do for me to tweet the same thing many times when the goal of the contest was to get the most retweets on one tweet? I tweeted once from their app and got 15 retweets on that single tweet.

alttab 14y ago
Were all 15 retweets from other people with unique histories and no way affiliated to your identity?
baddox 14y ago
Where's the solid proof? All I see is screenshots of web pages, which are near the top of the "things that are easiest to fake" list.
jack-r-abbit 14y ago
> claim that I violated their rules by entering multiple times Actually, they didn't claim you violated their rules. They claimed you entered multiple times... which you had previously claimed violated their rules. But they had already pointed out that making multiple tweets is fine if it is from the same account. And one of the spots you underlined was not the complete sentence. The rest of the sentence concludes with by using multiple/different Twitter accounts. I think it all needs to stay together. Also, some people forget there are two ways to retweet. You still have the perfectly valid original RT-style retweet (which you might be calling "mentions") and then you have the "new and improved" retweet function. I would guess that the old RT-style does not get included in the retweet count. Note: please don't take this as an indictment of your story... just that you may not be seeing everything correctly.
- massarog 14y ago
  Right, as I had stated the winner did not have direct retweets, but rather the original style (which I called mentions). He had 13 of those.
  - jack-r-abbit 14y ago
    I'm not entirely sure how to run a good search on Twitter to get a count of how many time a person was "mentioned" with a specific tweet. I'm sure you know better than I do since you ran such a search in order to get to the count of 13. But is it at all possible that you missed a couple? And does that 13 include the 1 direct retweet he got?
tedivm 14y ago
Yeah, but what exactly are you accusing them of? What is the benefit to them here? It's not like they lied about giving out a camera, they just picked a different winner- there's really no upside to them screwing you here, which makes me think it's less malicious than is being made out.

alttab 14y ago

Were all 15 retweets from other people with unique histories and no way affiliated to your identity?

baddox 14y ago

Where's the solid proof? All I see is screenshots of web pages, which are near the top of the "things that are easiest to fake" list.

jack-r-abbit 14y ago

> claim that I violated their rules by entering multiple times Actually, they didn't claim you violated their rules. They claimed you entered multiple times... which you had previously claimed violated their rules. But they had already pointed out that making multiple tweets is fine if it is from the same account. And one of the spots you underlined was not the complete sentence. The rest of the sentence concludes with by using multiple/different Twitter accounts. I think it all needs to stay together. Also, some people forget there are two ways to retweet. You still have the perfectly valid original RT-style retweet (which you might be calling "mentions") and then you have the "new and improved" retweet function. I would guess that the old RT-style does not get included in the retweet count. Note: please don't take this as an indictment of your story... just that you may not be seeing everything correctly.

massarog 14y ago
Right, as I had stated the winner did not have direct retweets, but rather the original style (which I called mentions). He had 13 of those.
- jack-r-abbit 14y ago
  I'm not entirely sure how to run a good search on Twitter to get a count of how many time a person was "mentioned" with a specific tweet. I'm sure you know better than I do since you ran such a search in order to get to the count of 13. But is it at all possible that you missed a couple? And does that 13 include the 1 direct retweet he got?

tedivm 14y ago

Yeah, but what exactly are you accusing them of? What is the benefit to them here? It's not like they lied about giving out a camera, they just picked a different winner- there's really no upside to them screwing you here, which makes me think it's less malicious than is being made out.