Most Twitter Sweepstakes ask you to retweet a message to enter the giveaway. This helps spread the word about the contest and generates "buzz" for the sweepstakes' sponsor. But if you have a lot of followers who don't enter sweepstakes, all of those retweets might seem like spam. So how can you enter Twitter sweepstakes without annoying your friends?
Tweet about Sweepstakes without Being a Spammer
Unlike Facebook, Twitter doesn't restrict you to just one account. So one solution is to create a separate Twitter account just for entering sweepstakes. Use that account to follow companies that often hold sweepstakes, to follow sweepstakes sites (you can follow About.com Contests on Twitter here: ContestsGuide) and other people who love sweepstakes, and to retweet all of those messages.
Does it sound confusing to have a Twitter account just for sweepstakes entry? It's not, really. If you use a Twitter client like TweetDeck, you can see all of the messages you receive at both accounts in one place, and you can easily choose whether any tweet you send goes to your sweepstakes account, your non-sweepstakes account, or both.
Creating a Twitter account for entering sweepstakes helps you to organize your sweepstakes information without bothering anyone who isn't interested in contests.
