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Permalink Reply by Tiffany Merritt on March 5, 2010 at 5:22pm

Hi there,

I get people who have "blogs" just for contest entries and twitter accounts just to tweet entries all the time. The only reason I haven't made a note that contest entry only blogs and twitter accounts is because many of these folks have followers, so at least someone else might be seeing the opportunity and coming to my blog for the first time.

But I think it is ok to disqualify them if and only if you have stated in your rules that their blog and twitter accounts have to be used for more than just posting contests. Otherwise, they haven't really broken any rules.

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Permalink Reply by Angela on March 5, 2010 at 5:26pm

Tiffany
Thanks for your response! That was along my lines of thinking - too late to disqualify them now, since I didn't think about/state that up front. This particular person's blog has no followers, no counter -- not sure if the public has ever seen it. She does have twitter followers but they all look like other prof. bloggers & companies who may have held prior giveaways

Thanks for the advice!

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Permalink Reply by Tara on March 5, 2010 at 9:38pm

Yes, alot of people do that! I verify everything. Every single entry and if it is from a spammer I remove them.

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Permalink Reply by Danyale N on March 6, 2010 at 2:03am

i have had a person give me emails that didnt exist and i just over look them and pick another winner

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