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I like the idea of TwitterContests. I definitely could see the potential for using a contest on Twitter as a marketing tool!


Many businesses already do this. I see hundreds of SMBs running contests on Twitter every day. Usually you have to retweet and follow to enter, but there are some other rules too occasionally. It would be nice to automate that workflow and/or help them define it.


Yes, exactly. AppSumo has been running a lot of promotions recently that are based around social sharing in exchange for additional entries in whatever they are giving away. It would be interesting to automate the AppSumo deal process.


Well I tried to give away a meetup ticket on Twitter. You just had to be one of the next 10 people to follow me and Tweet about Turn-O-Phrase. It was a pain in the ass tracking all the followers and who said what.


FYI Twitter/FB contests are one of the services we offer, if there are any SMB's out there who are interested: http://venpop.com/socialmarketing/campaigns/


Thanks for sharing this! It looks interesting!




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