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March 1, 2011 6:11 AM Subscribe
Social media tracking: my organization's Twitter and Facebook pages are nearing milestone numbers of followers, and to help push us over the hump I'd like to do a giveaway to the round number follower. How can I track who is the X-th person to follow us on Twitter and the Y-th person to "Like" us on Facebook?
Response by poster: I'm not really concerned with the unfollowing phenomenon, theichibun. The rate at which we gain new followers isn't such that it'd be easy to swindle us.
I do like the random drawing idea, though. Maybe for another contest.
posted by moviehawk at 6:37 AM on March 1, 2011
I do like the random drawing idea, though. Maybe for another contest.
posted by moviehawk at 6:37 AM on March 1, 2011
On Twitter your followers are listed by the order in which they follow you. If you end up with R + 4 followers, you can choose the 4th person in the list, and that's your Rth follower.
posted by mkb at 6:37 AM on March 1, 2011
posted by mkb at 6:37 AM on March 1, 2011
mkb: "On Twitter your followers are listed by the order in which they follow you. If you end up with R + 4 followers, you can choose the 4th person in the list, and that's your Rth follower"
Unless anyone of the first R-1 followers has unfollowed you since you hit the milestone which can be hard to know for sure.
posted by turkeyphant at 7:00 AM on March 1, 2011
Unless anyone of the first R-1 followers has unfollowed you since you hit the milestone which can be hard to know for sure.
posted by turkeyphant at 7:00 AM on March 1, 2011
Response by poster: ...and I just read that Facebook is pretty anti-"contest."
posted by moviehawk at 7:06 AM on March 1, 2011
posted by moviehawk at 7:06 AM on March 1, 2011
I do this for work, too, and it's really, really difficult with Facebook. I don't remember how we finally figured it out last time, but we decided never to do it again, and I'm not sure we were 100% sure that we got the right person -- because there's not an easy way to tell.
With Twitter, you can turn on emails to note every time someone joins, and it is possible to keep track of it that way although it's unpleasant and a lot of refreshing to make correlations.
In general, we do the random giveaway to all of our followers when X happens -- I've also recently seen a giveaway where the prize increased exponentially by the number of entries they got. (IE, we're giving away Prize Y...unless we get 100 entries, in which case we're giving away Prize Y and Prize X...and if you go really crazy and we get 200 entries, we're giving away Prize Y and Prize X and Prize Z!) You could probably adapt that to a follow campaign.
When we do follow campaigns, however, we generally notice that the followers are more spambot-y than normal.
Good luck!
posted by peanut_mcgillicuty at 11:04 AM on March 1, 2011
With Twitter, you can turn on emails to note every time someone joins, and it is possible to keep track of it that way although it's unpleasant and a lot of refreshing to make correlations.
In general, we do the random giveaway to all of our followers when X happens -- I've also recently seen a giveaway where the prize increased exponentially by the number of entries they got. (IE, we're giving away Prize Y...unless we get 100 entries, in which case we're giving away Prize Y and Prize X...and if you go really crazy and we get 200 entries, we're giving away Prize Y and Prize X and Prize Z!) You could probably adapt that to a follow campaign.
When we do follow campaigns, however, we generally notice that the followers are more spambot-y than normal.
Good luck!
posted by peanut_mcgillicuty at 11:04 AM on March 1, 2011
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Why not cut it off at the milestone member and have a drawing that only the first X/Y people can win?
posted by theichibun at 6:31 AM on March 1, 2011