Twitter: how to choose a random tweet for a given keyword/keyphrase

If lots of people have tweeted tweets containing exactly the same phrase (e.g. a marketing line or URL), is there any way to randomly pick one user who did this? If so, how?

Please help

 

I see people doing this all the time - someone must know!

 

Anyone at all?

 

You might want to check out http://twiveaway.com

They allow you to select a random 'winner' out of the people who have retweeted your tweet.

 

Great link. Is it free? It says it's currently closed...

 

Oops! I didn't notice that.

You can also take a look at http://www.tweetswin.com/new/

or http://tweetaways.com/

or http://www.itweet2win.com/

(I haven't tried those myself, but it looks like they should do the trick)

 

Thanks for the great links. Are they all free services? When I googled I couldn't find anything.

 

I wouldn't do this, you'll get more out of twitter if you interact with your users.
there are many sites that you can schedule tweets, this is most likely what you want, but I would advise against it.

 

What are you talking about. Did you even read the messages in this thread?!

 

whats the purpose of this info you seek? What are you doi ng with it?

 

I am not exactly sure how this works. How do you get the message to people who are not following you.

 

(most - or all - of) those services require people to follow you and then tweet a message in order to enter the contest

 

And what's wrong with mentions anyway?

 

the only way to message people without having them follow you or you follow them is to use a too like TweetUnlimited (com) - where you automated the @replies without actually doing a real "reply" and do send messages as mentions. Works great as it does not use the Twitter API as most scripts do, which gives you heavy limits!

 

Or you can just mention the person normally. It's not hard.

 

Are you retarded or something?

 

Thanks for this ! I like Tweetswin.com