Toy Soldiers Contest on Twitter!

Rules:

Every Twitter @Signal_Studios follower is eligible to play. Entrants must have a current Twitter account and must adhere to the standard Twitter user agreement below. If entrant does not have a Twitter account, follow the steps to create an account and become a follower of @Signal_Studios (https://twitter.com/Signal_Studios). Trivia questions will be posted at 12 noon PST. The first follower to respond with a correct answer will be the winner. Twitter time stamps will determine the winner. In the result of a tie both followers will be awarded a code. Codes unlock a full version of Toy Soldiers game. Game codes will be sent via direct message on Twitter, starting at 12:01 a.m. Monday, March 1st, 2010. Entrant’s country of residence must support Xbox LIVE to unlock full Toy Soldiers game.

Twitter user agreement:

• Discourage the creation of multiple accounts: If users make lots of accounts in order to enter a contest more than once, they’re liable to get all of their accounts suspended. Please be sure to include a rule stating that anyone found to use multiple accounts to enter will be ineligible.


• Discourage posting the same tweet over and over (and over) again: Posting duplicate, or near duplicate, updates or links is a violation of the Twitter Rules and jeopardizes search quality. Please don’t set rules to encourage lots of duplicate updates (like saying, “whoever retweets this the most wins”). Your contest could cause users to be automatically filtered out of Twitter search . Plus, instead of their followers seeing your cool contest, their followers might start getting annoyed by your contest. You might want to set a clear contest rule stating that multiple entries in a single day will not be accepted.


• Ask users to include an @reply to you in their update so you can see all the entries: When it comes to picking a winner, you’ll want to see all the contestants. If the updates include @username mention to you, you’ll be able to see all the updates in your Mentions timeline (see here for more information on replies and mentions ). Just doing a public search may not show every single update, and some contestants may be filtered from search for quality.


• Encourage the use of topics relevant to the contest: You might decide to have users include relevant hashtag topics along with the updates (like #contest or #yourcompanyname). Keep in mind that hashtag topics need to be relevant to the update; encouraging users to add your hashtag to totally unrelated updates might cause them to violate the Twitter Rules.