We Have A Winner!
Alright, well, congratulations to Jeremiah Cooper of JeremiahCooper.com for winning the TV. A winner was selected the day before (@Tevye2009) but he failed to respond after like 36 hours or so, and a winner had to be chosen so lucky Jeremiah was drawn out of the hat. The TV is on its way to florida where Nickycakes is sure it will be put to good use. Coop was able to get 3 people to sign up to the contest under him, giving him 4 entries, which definitely helped his chances. Thanks again to CX Digital for supplying the television. That’s not exactly something the Cakes would pay out of pocket for haha. Please go sign up to their network if you haven’t already. They have some good peeps there.
Ok, so that part is kinda boring. Let’s talk about some of the other contestants who deserve some honorable mentions.
Probably the big story of the contest was a guy who goes by cd_1. He decided to try exactly what Nickycakes would do in this situation: game the system. Basically, he signed up thousands of twitter accounts with random names, and signed them all up to the contest using his main accounts referral link. The only way Nicky was able to weed out all the fake accounts was because he was using a really outdated useragent for all of the fake signups (they all appeared to be using IE 5.5), so marking them all as fake was pretty easy. After he realized that none of his entries were counting, he contacted Nicky who thanked him for all the fake twitter followers, but informed him that the entries wouldn’t count. For being a good sport and putting in so much effort, though, Cakes gave him a bunch of free points. He didn’t end up winning, but he did get pretty creative with it. Hopefully he will be nice enough to follow through with his request to make a guest post about the whole thing…
The points leader in the contest was Jonathan Volk who was determined to do his best to win the TV for his pastor. Kudos to him for his effort. As Nicky has said before many times, you can find out whos a true balla by seeing how much people give away to charity. Anyway, he got a total of 37 people to join the contest using his link, giving him almost a 5% chance of victory. He even ran some ppc campaigns to the contest, but it’s unclear if any of that traffic “converted”. A for Effort Jon.
The “Luckiest Guy On The Planet” award goes to some random guy whos twitter name is @antwanp. He joined the contest like everyone else, and didn’t get any signups on his own really. But, when @shoemoney decided to tweet the contest, he didn’t even bother getting his own link and just used that guys link instead. He got the dude like 25 signups.   Luckily that guy didn’t win. That would have been lame as hell.
As you can see on twitterholic, the contest did a good job at getting more followers for @nickycakes, although a bunch of them are fake signups from cd_1.
Overall, complete success. Someone got a free TV that Nickycakes didn’t need. Everyone had fun. Nicky got to code the whole thing from scratch which is what he loves doing. Pretty rad.
Keep it real.
Heh…I should have thought about the twitter accounts lol…oh well, it was a fun contest! Congrats to the winner!!
Fun contest, thanks for running it!
congrats to mr.coop!
Thanks once again for running the contest and thanks for the new TV! Hope you got a lot of new twitter followers and hopefully they will all continue to follow you.
Congrats to the winner. I’m beginning to think I’ll never win a TV
Setting up fake accounts is cheating in my book, and cheaters should not be rewarded.
hahaa
congrats to Jeremiah.
Who also has a great designer on his team to help out affiliates with effective landing page design.
I thought twitter was retarded, and signed up for your contest. Now I half get the point and use it on a semi regular basis. I’m sure I’m not the only one.
@G.Smith: Thinking and being creative should always be rewarded. Acting like a crybaby drone who always follows the rules should land you a job at burger king.
nice contest ever. Hopefully you oftenly make a contest such this contest
Sucks the hair on my balls to be Tevye2009 right now.
Finally. Business as usual now?
I love the guy that cheated and tried to screw the system. If only he had paid more attention to detail…he might have thrown one by ya.