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On August 27 2009 07:14 onmach wrote:That search site only goes back 4 or so days out of the 10 of the contest. And most of the entries came in the beginning. I'm pretty sure the total count is around 4-5k. 5 days before the contest ended twitter.com/starcraft said "If the contest ended today, everyone would get a key," so there weren't many entries in the beginning.
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So I think if you didn't put @Starcraft they have no way to find your #SC2Fan entry, right ?
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5 days before the contest ended twitter.com/starcraft said "If the contest ended today, everyone would get a key," so there weren't many entries in the beginning.
I kept a close eye on stats in the beginning and there were at least 50 entries per hour the first day or so, which would have put them way above 500. They were up to 9000 followers at that point which is 70% of what they had when it was done. So if there were 1257 in the second half when they accrued 4000 more followers, there should have been another 2950 in the early days if the follow rate compares with the contest entry rate. That sounds close to what others are coming up with.
I know what they said, but I don't believe them. I think they just said that to get more people to sign up because they were expecting more interest. Or maybe the guy behind the @starcraft didn't do a proper search.
I mean I'd love to think I have a 50% chance of getting a key, but that seems unrealistic based on what I was seeing. I'm not going to get my hopes up like that.
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On August 27 2009 07:21 Nitro68 wrote:
So I think if you didn't put @Starcraft they have no way to find your #SC2Fan entry, right ?
Damn, guess I'm boned.  Oh well, guess there's always the off-chance they'll just search for just #sc2fan lol..
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I looked at this:
http://bloggingbits.com/the-art-and-science-of-retweeting-for-twitteraholics/
and concluded that you should say something like:
RT @StarCraft 500 SC2 beta keys going to our biggest #SC2fan which is of course me because I spend all my time on Teamliquid
Rules: http://bit.ly/iS2m6
where the only thing you should change is what is in the brackets in the original message, which was:
RT @StarCraft 500 SC2 beta keys going to our biggest #SC2fan [Insert what makes you our biggest fan! -pics OK]
Rules: http://bit.ly/iS2m6
Really what you are doing is Re-tweeting the original message to everyone who follows your twitter account with your own personal touch. You inform all your friends of the contest's original so that they too can enter the contest (by spamming all of their followers) and thus word of SC2 will spread virally across twitter. Clever idea.
Of course, what ended up happening is a bunch of people registered twitter for the first time (possibly with multiple accounts!!) as there are a lot of messages on the #SC2fan hashtag that have the default icon and only 1 tweet on the account and bungled the idea by posting things that didn't link to the original contest or follow the format and so I doubt it worked very well.
Personally I suspect that if you have #SC2fan in your message (it's the easiest way for them to consolidate all of the messages) you are entered but it all depends on how strict blizzard decides to be.
Anyway... that was my take on the whole thing
Strayline
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Ok from what I read from that and the comments, there is no actual "RT" command, it's just a means of showing that you are rebroadcasting someone elses tweet on your page.
So if you sent it to @Starcraft with a #Sc2fan message, you didn't even do it right, it was supposed to be on your own page.
If you search hashtweeps.com for @Starcraft #Sc2fan which is what would come up if you included RT, you get 1250 entries. If they do it that way, then yeah the majority of people did it wrong. Obviously there is some clear miscommunication if out of 13000 followers only 1200 people managed to it right, and out of those people, how many people entered multiple times because even they didn't know how to do it correctly?
Would have been nice if they fucking explained this shit. Jesus christ I knew there was a reason I didn't bother with twitter before this, it's fucking retarded.
What pisses me off is that "RT" is not a function on Twitter, you have to go to some other website to understand what it even means. Where @Starcraft sends the message to their twitter page, common sense says if you want to enter a contest that @Starcraft is hosting, you send your entry to @Starcraft. Instead you put two letters infront of it, so that your message doesn't get sent to @Starcraft, but still you include @Starcraft which otherwise would send it to their twitter page. If that isn't the most misleading, convoluted fucking system for entering a contest, I don't know what is.
And the fact that they didn't extrapolate once on how exactly to do it pisses me off even more.
Hopefully they really are just taking the entries to #sc2fan even if you didn't use RT. In any case I am seriously annoyed by this entire thing.
Fuck twitter
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RT simply means re-tweet. As long as you included @Starcraft and #sc2fan somewhere in your message, you'll be entered.
It's funny reading all the anger and confusion over twitter in this thread. This was pretty much the easiest entry into an SC2 Beta Key contest you could ask for. Really didn't expect a simple social networking site that MILLIONS of people use everyday would give the userbase of TL so much trouble. :p
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i'm confused..the contest rules said you only needed to have #sc2fan in your tweet, now this new post says to include @Starcraft in your tweet as well? wtf? someone please explain this to me
“RT @StarCraft 500 SC2 beta keys going to our biggest #SC2fan [Insert what makes you our biggest fan! -pics OK] Rules: [link]” Qualified entrants will then be required to “re-tweet,” their answers to www.twitter.com/starcraft, making certain to include “#SC2fan” in their responses
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On August 28 2009 01:37 waavves wrote:
RT simply means re-tweet. As long as you included @Starcraft and #sc2fan somewhere in your message, you'll be entered.
It's funny reading all the anger and confusion over twitter in this thread. This was pretty much the easiest entry into an SC2 Beta Key contest you could ask for. Really didn't expect a simple social networking site that MILLIONS of people use everyday would give the userbase of TL so much trouble. :p
Because Twitter is awful. I'm certain in a few years people are going to look back on twitter and just cringe, kind of like people do with myspace, only it's grown men and women and public figures using twitter
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"Hey guys, I'm putting lettuce on my sandwich right now! LOL! : DDDDD WOOT LETTUCE"
-Twitter (It's disgusting)
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On August 28 2009 02:24 Zelniq wrote:i'm confused..the contest rules said you only needed to have #sc2fan in your tweet, now this new post says to include @Starcraft in your tweet as well? wtf? someone please explain this to me Show nested quote +“RT @StarCraft 500 SC2 beta keys going to our biggest #SC2fan [Insert what makes you our biggest fan! -pics OK] Rules: [link]” Qualified entrants will then be required to “re-tweet,” their answers to www.twitter.com/starcraft, making certain to include “#SC2fan” in their responses
wow im shocked at the people who can't do this or don't understand this, their instructions couldn't get any clearer
when you re-tweet (the reply button on the tweet from starcraft), it'll automatically add a @starcraft
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On August 28 2009 04:03 calvinL wrote:Show nested quote +On August 28 2009 02:24 Zelniq wrote:i'm confused..the contest rules said you only needed to have #sc2fan in your tweet, now this new post says to include @Starcraft in your tweet as well? wtf? someone please explain this to me “RT @StarCraft 500 SC2 beta keys going to our biggest #SC2fan [Insert what makes you our biggest fan! -pics OK] Rules: [link]” Qualified entrants will then be required to “re-tweet,” their answers to www.twitter.com/starcraft, making certain to include “#SC2fan” in their responses wow im shocked at the people who can't do this or don't understand this, their instructions couldn't get any clearer when you re-tweet (the reply button on the tweet from starcraft), it'll automatically add a @starcraft
that's not a retweet, that's a reply
RT has to manually go in front of the @starcraft that you get when you just click reply
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So does anyone know if the results are out yet?
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On August 28 2009 05:13 orz.fail wrote:
So does anyone know if the results are out yet?
they are not out yet. i suspect they will be out when the time for the beta rolls around.
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On August 28 2009 05:31 Virtuoso wrote:i suspect they will be out when the time for the beta rolls around.
Actually, the rules say that the 500 winners must be chosen within a week of the contest ending. So we can expect to know the results by this Monday at the latest (August 31st).
Winners will be sent a direct message on Twitter.
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agh, im so fucking confused
also i hope blizzard doesn't disqualify ppl with a resonable number (1-4) of entries per ip address, cause apparently my brother entered as well
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On August 28 2009 05:35 Fastinyoh wrote:Show nested quote +On August 28 2009 05:31 Virtuoso wrote:i suspect they will be out when the time for the beta rolls around. Actually, the rules say that the 500 winners must be chosen within a week of the contest ending. So we can expect to know the results by this Monday at the latest (August 31st). Winners will be sent a direct message on Twitter. The actual twitter site tweeted recently though that they would release them in 2 weeks
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On August 28 2009 06:49 Tsagacity wrote:The actual twitter site tweeted recently though that they would release them in 2 weeks
Hmm yep it looks like they did... blasphemy.
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On August 28 2009 07:15 Fastinyoh wrote:Show nested quote +On August 28 2009 06:49 Tsagacity wrote:The actual twitter site tweeted recently though that they would release them in 2 weeks Hmm yep it looks like they did... blasphemy.
so they will have the results by the 31st but wont be releasing them for another week good luck to everyone who entered
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On August 28 2009 04:06 PokePill wrote:Show nested quote +On August 28 2009 04:03 calvinL wrote:On August 28 2009 02:24 Zelniq wrote:i'm confused..the contest rules said you only needed to have #sc2fan in your tweet, now this new post says to include @Starcraft in your tweet as well? wtf? someone please explain this to me “RT @StarCraft 500 SC2 beta keys going to our biggest #SC2fan [Insert what makes you our biggest fan! -pics OK] Rules: [link]” Qualified entrants will then be required to “re-tweet,” their answers to www.twitter.com/starcraft, making certain to include “#SC2fan” in their responses wow im shocked at the people who can't do this or don't understand this, their instructions couldn't get any clearer when you re-tweet (the reply button on the tweet from starcraft), it'll automatically add a @starcraft that's not a retweet, that's a reply RT has to manually go in front of the @starcraft that you get when you just click reply
oh shit, I might've gotten it wrong then, hopefully just having @starcraft and #sc2fan is enough. Is a retweet an actual function on the site (it actually does something when you add RT), or is it just a way to label your reply as a tweet from another person.
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