Blogging Tips

Tweetons is a great tool that lets you encourage people to tweet about your business, by letting you run Twitter contests. Everything is automatic; Tweetons detects, verifies and sends out rewards all instantly and automatically. Don’t have a lot of time to set up a campaign? That’s ok because you can create a quick campaign in under a minute.

First you’ll need to link your Twitter account via OAuth. Next you’ll see a small popup which is where you actually create your campaign. As you’ll see below, there are 3 simple steps. You can choose to automatically follow anyone who mentions you. You can also choose to automatically reply to anyone that mentions you. It is unclear what the text area at the bottom is. It may be where you enter your campaign details or where you enter the automatic reply (if selected).

Once you click on “Create Quick Campaign” you’ll be able to customize it further if needed. If you want to a more detailed approach, you can start out by creating a regular campaign which will take more time — depending on how detailed you want it to be.

In the edit campaign area you can actually add more detailed information. You’ll be able to choose your campaign type. You can either have a sweepstakes or instant reward format. The instant reward format does just that — instantly send out a reward within seconds of the tweet being sent out. The sweepstakes format will automatically pick winners after the campaign is over.

You’ll also be able to customize your keyword or tweet that Tweeton will be listening for and will count as an entry in your campaign. You can pick the number of winners, start and end dates and times as well. Optionional settings include the ability to select how often someone can enter, the minimum number of followers someone needs to win and even the message to send to users who enter.

On the dashboard you can actually see detailed statistics about your campaign. There is a tweets/day graph and other information like how many tweets have been sent out, how many retweets, how many awards sent out, etc.

Tweetons makes running a Twitter contest easy and makes keeping track of it even easier. It definitely covers all bases with regards to settings and making sure that you campaign is thorough and professional. So, the next time you’re thinking of running a Twitter contest I’d definitely suggest using Tweetons.