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Getting users to Joing Twitter - contests
Has anyone done any contests to try to get others to join twitter at their university?
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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Britten on -
We just finished up a Twitter contest at the University of North Alabama (@north_alabama).
The idea was that our 500th follower would get a prize package (t-shirt, coffee mug, etc.). It worked great in getting us a bunch of new followers, but right about when we were going to cross the 500 mark we had someone create several 'fake' accounts and then followed us w/ their real account to be #500.
The nice thing was though, the next day Twitter had suspended all those (and his) accounts in suspicion of spam. This all happened over a weekend, so come Monday morning we had a real (and legit) 500th follower. We're still climbing too.
We might try another contest to get people to use a certain hashtag. Best use of the tag wins sort of thing. Not sure when yet.
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Permalink Reply by Lisa Brennecke on -
Thanks! This is a help.
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