A man built a Twitter bot that automatically entered and won 1,000 contests

%name A man built a Twitter bot that automatically entered and won 1,000 contests by Authcom, Nova Scotia\s Internet and Computing Solutions Provider in Kentville, Annapolis Valley

Social networks like Twitter and Facebook are often used for marketing, and many accounts hold contests to generate buzz around a product or event. Anyone can enter them and win the prizes, but one man took it upon himself to create a Twitter bot that would automatically enter every contest it could find, without raising any flags.

The robot entered 165,000 contests over the course of nine months, and it won prizes 1,000 of them.

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