What Do You Think About Giveaways on Twitter?
I’ve taken to initiating (and participating in) giveaways through Twitter. Some people, however, don’t want any of it. They’re either taking Twitter too seriously, or they’re annoyed with the way people are performing giveaways.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with having fun – so long as it’s not overdone with friends and followers. I usually only tweet a giveaway action once, and that seems to be sufficient. Winners don’t seem to mind, either.
It’s so much easier to facilitate this over Twitter compared to my blog in most cases. I’ll actually do my best to tie the two together (especially if I’ve done a review of the giveaway in question).
For example, I totally forgot to mention the giveaway in my video review of Days of Thunder, but I was able to use the corresponding blog post to let people know they had a chance to score a license. We had tons of responses on Twitter, since my readers follow me there. Unfortunately, many of ‘em forgot to put the link in their tweet (per my directions) – and others didn’t understand that they needed to replace the [Car] variable with an actual vehicle:
Are Twitter giveaways worth doing?
