Hacking Twitter Contests

Why didn’t I think of this?  A software developer wrote a python script to search for contests that require him to retweet and follow something, and do that work.  He ended up winning alot of contests (of course the success rate was .6 %).  But still he won stuff.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/10/technology/twitter-bot-contest/index.html

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