![]() When you extract the archive ZIP file, you get this folder with all your data: ![]() ![]() Where would I get my followers though? I could use the API but that'd takes ages with pagination I think. With 78,000 followers this should take about ~8 tries. If they didn't, get another random follower and repeat, until you find someone. He suggested that since there was 10,000+ people RT'ing and following, I could just pick a random follower from my current total follower list (78,000 at this point), then go to their profile to check if they RT'd it and see. So now how was I going to randomly pick a winner then? Maybe drop an email to twitter?- Alex Tsouloftas January 4, 2020 All online services use the max limit of 100. The desktop/mobile clients nor the api allows you to view the retweets. None apart from Twitter dev team can view all retweets. Of course because Twitter's web interface also uses the Twitter API. Nope, it doesn't scroll further than 100 last RTs. It must be possible to get a list of all RTs? How about without the API but just through Twitter's web interface? So you can get the last 100 RTs, then if you paginate, you get the same last 100 RTs. But the API that lets you list RTs has disabled pagination. Of course me being me, I didn't believe that at first. My friend Marc was quick to point out that it would be impossible to pick a random person from the RTs due to Twitter's API limits: How do you pick a random person from the people you RT? Luckily there was already lots of sites specializing in that: When it came down to actually picking a winner I started Googling. □ How I did a Twitter giveaway, got 10K+ new followers and discovered you can hack most giveaways to win them (includes the winner) /QO2OQWY6kb- January 11, 2020 (you have to follow because I want followers)- December 31, 2019Īs you probably expected to happen, I've never had a tweet take off so fast: I'm giving away a new □MacBook Pro 16" to a random person who retweets this tweet I'd rather spend $3000 on someone who can use it than wasting it on Twitter ads, so here we go Pressing the TWEET button on this I got nerves all over thinking this might go complete wrong, but let's try: So I wanted to try it and I wrote this tweet. Now doing a giveaway is somewhat of an artificial way of getting traction for a tweet. I'm not a big fan of ads, nor consuming ads: I have multiple levels of ad blockers like uBlock and HOSTS files blocking any ad and tracker, nor paying for ads: I have tried buying Facebook and Twitter ads and they never really compare to the conversion/clicks/sales I get from writing viral tweets/blogs. Half of my friends said it was sleazy and attracted the wrong audience, the other half of my friends said "just do it and see what happens", and then there was Cam who said it was "both sleazy and attracted the wrong audience and I should just do it" □ I'm not a big fan of ads I knew Gumroad had done giveaways before. (you have to be following us so we can DM you if you win)- Gumroad August 16, 2019 To celebrate breaking $6M sent to creators last month, we're going to give $6,000 to a random person who retweets this tweet! I had 69,800 followers and because I admittedly am an imperfect and superficial human addicted to vanity metrics, I wanted to get to 70,000 followers before midnight and it becoming 2020. It was almost New Year's Eve and I wanted to do something special on Twitter.
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