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This is in reference to this question in which styleguidance.com talks about their site promotion ideas. http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3281/i-decided-to-do-a-huge-promotion-to-promote-my-site

They list several ways for their users to enter the giveaways from tweeting certain things on twitter to 'liking' posts on their Facebook fanpage. I'm interested to know if all of these entries are manually tabulated for every giveaway or is there an automated system in the background keeping track of the entries.

If it is all manual....how could it be automated?

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No it's done manually.

To make it easier, it's a 2 step system for me.

  1. Use a random # generator to select category(ex: twitter or facebook etc)
  2. Run the random # generator again to pick the winner.

I don't think there is a way to automate it. Gotta put in the time.

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To be fair, that method isn't exactly random. For example, if you had 10,000 people Facebook fans and only one Twitter follower, then the lucky Twitter entry would have a 1/2 chance of winning instead of the 1/10,001 that they should have had. – Kevin Pang Mar 1 at 23:31
well the goal is to get everyone to participate in all methods. – Blah Mar 2 at 7:58

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