My experiences running a Twitter giveaway bot

Over the past month, I've been running a Twitter bot that retweets tweets which look a bit like this:

So every 15 seconds I would be automatically entered into a random giveaway. Admittedly, I got the idea from this blog post that went viral a few years ago, which I saw late last year. I quickly coded the bot up afterwards and it has been running for a little over a month.

Here are how things went with it.

Stats

I entered over 18,000 giveaways during this period, and have won a mere 19 of them. That is a winning percentage of 0.1%. The blog post I linked earlier reported over 0.5% winning percentage, but that was a few years ago when there were much less bots and much less people knew about Twitter bots.

I can imagine that most legitimate contest holders would check for bots, as the giveaways I won were always from smaller accounts. They also used really bad methods of picking a winner, instead of using ones that check for bots. Like one person MANUALLY entered every entrant's name into a 'pick a name out of the hat' site to pick the winner.. good thing there were only like 20 people who entered.

Winnings

Here are things I've won from the giveaway:

• ayana pro key
• pokemon tcg booster pack key
• xbox 30 day game pass
• sonic cd steam key
• roblox toy key
• 11 pink coin
• hulu account
• drakelounge.com $7 credit
• $25 paypal
• 20 week cycling training program videos
• spotify premium
• spotify premium (declined)
• logo of a roblox character (declined)
• survive the nights steam key
• cicuit dude steam key
• 199 cappasity coins
• personalized pony drawing (declined)
• madden 18 character (declined)
• cs go item

My favorite winning is probably 199 Cappasity coins, because I'm a sucker for crypto :P

Would love to answer any questions you have about the topic!

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