You Must Enter to Win The Twitter Lottery
By TwitterFools Editorial Staff, October 7th, 2009 in News | Comments
Most people love the lottery. That sense of excitement and hopefullness that stirs when a jackpot grows particularly large. How local news coverage drives us to line up at our local lotto dealer to grab our winning tickets. We admit it, we’ve spent a few hours day dreaming about how we would spend our millions. Haven’t you? Given its popularity it seemed only a matter of time before a lottery made its way to Twitter. Now, lottery lovers can go ga-ga over The Twitter Lottery, a student project that will leverage the viral nature of Twitter, the web, and the near universal lottery craze to drive jackpot totals higher and higher. And, all you have to do is enter to win!
That’s right. They’ll be no trips to the local convenience story, no standing in long lines, and no straining your clairvoyant brain trying to divine the winning numbers. Nope. All you have to do is follow @twterlotto and you are entered! It is that simple. Can you feel the excitement growing already?
The Twitter Lottery Winner will be selected on December 25, 2009
The website and concept are the brain child of Peter H., a student who attends Mount Royal University in Alberta, who developed the idea for a school project. He writes the following about the size of the jackpot on The Twitter Lotto website
The actual jackpot is directly based on the estimated value of this web site which can be seen at the top of this home page. It is updated daily. As the web site becomes more popular, the value of the site increases. The beauty of this concept is that it’s free and the public plays an important role in how large they want to see this jackpot become just by telling friends, co-workers or even family to participate. The value is consistently growing everyday.
As Peter says – you have a role to play in how large the jackpot becomes. So, get out and tell your friends and drive people to the website. Of course, you should also follow @twterlotto for your chance to win.
Peter has made a commitment to try and avert anyone from gaming the system. He asks that you only enter one time from one Twitter account. He assures us he will:
personally review the winning account after it is selected on Christmas Day. If I feel it is a duplicate or bogus account, I will choose another (legitimate) one.
The winner will be announced via tweet from the @twterlotto account and the winner will receive a round-trip ticket to travel to Alberta to collect his/her winnings via certified check. Although it is likely to be cold in Alberta at Christmas time, your winnings will probably help warm you up to the idea. Currently the pot is valued at only $168 but we have a feeling it’ll grow much larger.
Now, being the bright guy that Peter is, he’s offering sponsorship/advertising opportunities. From the site:
Why should you advertise with The Twitter Lotto?
- Its a revolving concept that gets even more popular each day.
- It doesn’t cost as much as pay-per-click advertising.
- If your ad is interesting people can spread it via Twitter.
- Its supporting your viewers.
- You don’t have to worry about fraudulent clicks.
- The Twitter Lotto has quality followers.
Get the full scoop on sponsoring the Twitter Lottery. It is nice to see new and fun ways to monetize Twitter .
We love Peter’s idea and wish him, and all our fellow tweeps, good fortune with this effort. We’ll keep you updated as the jackpot grows. How much it grows is up to all of us. You should enter now and tell your friends/followers to do the same and make sure you visit the website. We are getting excited thinking about how big this could get! Can you feel it too? Let us know what you think.
Until the next time, be well and happy tweeting!
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