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Weekly Snapshot Contest

Hey folks!

With the introduction of easier sharing of snaps on Twitter and Facebook, we've just launched a snapshot contest.  What?! Contest?! Yes! You can read the full scoop in our new blog post

The theme of the week is....

Hidden spots of Ur — your favorite little nooks and crannies, unusual formations, hidden pleasures and strange places — and all the strange sites that make Ur the wonderful world that it is.

So, to be considered, tweet your snap with these hashtags so we can find them: 

#glitchsnap 
#hiddenworld

After a week has passed, we will choose a winner from snaps that were tweeted for the prize, 500 credits! 

Again, for the full details, check out our blog post, and we'll be looking for your snaps!

Clarification: the tweet needs to be publicly visible to be entered in the contest.

Posted 70 days ago by kevbob Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • If the "Tweet Privacy" setting on your account is enabled, then we will not be able to see your tweets.  That the "Protect my Tweets" checkbox on your account settings 
    Posted 68 days ago by Mayor Quimby Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am having the same problem and ftr and am not ignorant, mentally deficient or pc dysfunctional. Per twitter, there are a few reasons this contest will not be entirely fair: Twitter Help. There is a certain level of mystery in "However, we may not show every Tweet in search results pages" even though some reasons are given. Most concerning is there seems to be some ranking of relevance or popularity that could prevent some snaps from being displayed.
    Posted 68 days ago by FyodorD Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If what Fyo says is accurate (very likely so, especially for new accounts), it might be of benefit to everyone to check out The Cat Face's thread listing glitchen twitter accounts. If everyone follows everyone, perhaps more results will come up....?
    Posted 68 days ago by Voluptua Sneezelips Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So let me get this straight ... in order for a snap to even be viewable to the TS judges, the person tweeting it must be popular enough to have a lot of tweety followers?
    Posted 68 days ago by Sirentist Subscriber! | Permalink
  • That seems so, but I assume TS either didn't know or didn't consider that. Hoping someone takes a look at that link and the potential for non-displayed snaps and thinks of some other way to do this contest.
    Posted 68 days ago by FyodorD Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes Sirentist, seems that way...from the FAQ that FyodorD referenced...the complete response below...seems even ALL may not really show all...at least that is the way it reads to me also.

    "Are you viewing only Top results? Try selecting All at the top of the search results page. This will show you all the Tweets which have been indexed for that search query. However, we may not show every Tweet in search results pages."
    Posted 68 days ago by b3achy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Okay, forgive me for being so dense about this but this is my first twittery experience. How can you gain followers for your tweets if people can't view them because you don't have enough followers?
    Posted 68 days ago by Sirentist Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have been trying to post a snap also and it is not coming up.
    I checked my account to make sure not to have the privacy enabled and retried and still nothing.
    Posted 68 days ago by Jeasilver Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Another question ... if we all add ourselves as followers to each other, will our followings cancel each other out? In other words, is it displaying a certain percentage (the top 10% most followed #hiddenworld tweeters) or is it based on an absolute number of followers (if you have at least x number of followers, your tweet will be displayed)?

    P.S. I just looked at the numbers and when I click the "All" button there is someone's thing displaying and she or he has only ten followers. (In among those with dozens or hundreds.) So if the number is absolute, it's at least attainable.

    *stampedes off to create nine twitter alts*

    *for SCIENCE*
    Posted 68 days ago by Sirentist Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Mayor Quimby - My Tweets have been publicly visible from the start and I have used the hash tags, etc. Here's my account if you want to experiment. See if you can locate the tweets I have labelled with the two hash tags using any other internal or external to twitter search engine and let me know if I have done something incorrect.

    @everyone else - I think we'll find that the search is based on most viewed photos and so I would agree with the attracting more followers theory.
    Posted 68 days ago by Cleops Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If there's a possibility of some submissions being missed as a result of not being included in public search results, would it be worth mentioning @playglitch on entries? (Perhaps limiting entries by duration and/or number?)
    Posted 68 days ago by Christine Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have clicked on many to follow thinking this is needed.such a mess for everyone here that it in the end sounds like someone is flogging to get everyone on twitter rather than the fun of a snap contest.Such brazen coercion.really think about this carefully.
    Posted 68 days ago by Jellybelly Baby Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ha! Now the contest for me is much more about how to trick Twitter into displaying my stupid image on the #hiddenworld page than it is about actually winning any snap contest!
    Posted 68 days ago by Sirentist Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 Hahahaha.right glitch on there Sirentist feel the same here.Kevbob and his little tricks on us.lol. And Jelly so very true.Business always Ay.lol.
    Posted 68 days ago by Gassy Jack Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm having a problem, everytime i tweet a photo I get wait you were about to win and have to reload, should that happen?
    Posted 67 days ago by Moon Flower Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Moon Flower you may want to open a bug report for that.
    Posted 67 days ago by The Cat Face Subscriber! | Permalink
  • While Twitter's search tools can be... finicky, there are other tools our there which allow for full searches of Twitter.  Topsy.com is one of them.  So rest assured that we will see your entries! 
    Posted 65 days ago by Mayor Quimby Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Very cool. Thanks for the update. I think I have more snaps to take now...
    Posted 65 days ago by FyodorD Subscriber! | Permalink
  • twiters is such a nucence :( cant we just do the contest here or on Facebook
    Posted 65 days ago by Frowning Flounder Subscriber! | Permalink
  • But...but...I have 22 followers! TWENTY TWO for gosh sakes! At least I did, before I repeatedly deleted and re-posted my glitchsnaps a half dozen times. Forever alone on twitter.
    Posted 64 days ago by N2ZOrtolanaBlue Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The #hiddenworld competition ends tonight at midnight Pacific time, so if you've been saving some snaps until the last minute, this is it!
    Posted 64 days ago by Mayor Quimby Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This whole thing was kind of a bust, IMO.  Nobody with a "real" Twitter account (including me) wants to clutter it with advertising for a game, so everybody who wants to enter the contest has been making Glitch-specific accounts that are so new and green that the internal search engine can't even find them.  The only people following these new accounts are other Glitchen. I suspect that goes against the entire purpose of the Twitter contest (i.e., get popular Twitter users to spread awareness of the game beyond the pool of current Glitch players), and the rest of us are annoyed because (as Jellybelly Baby says above) loyal players can't just open up one page within Glitch to view all the contest entries.

    I don't have anything against Twitter per se, but I am not going to take my Glitch-playing over there, and all the false starts in this thread suggest to me that nobody else is really going to do that either.  Can't we keep our contests in-house?  Must we SOCIAL MEDIA everything into the ground?
    Posted 64 days ago by Pale Queen Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Haters gonna hate. Whatever. WHO WON?
    Posted 64 days ago by Griselda Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Is there a maximum number of entries per week?
    Posted 64 days ago by ZenMonkey Subscriber! | Permalink
  • my guess would be that we will get to vote. Even better if the pictures were embedded. even better if everyone else dropped out and I won by default.
    Posted 64 days ago by bored no more Subscriber! | Permalink
  • And entries are CLOSED.  We are now reviewing the entries.  Expect an announcement later today.
    Posted 63 days ago by Mayor Quimby Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Aw, I just came in to do some more.  It was actually a lot of fun :)  Good luck all!

    ETA:  I had to be ms (not miss) parsley on there as someone had already taken miss parsley.  Not sure if my entries are eligible as I couldn't follow the ins and outs of the conversation, being new to twitter.

    Follow me if you would like, but I am new so may mess it up :D
    Posted 63 days ago by Miss Parsley Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So I'm inferring there is NOT a maximum number of entries.

    Oh well, I'm not equipped for this challenge. :-)
    Posted 63 days ago by ZenMonkey Subscriber! | Permalink
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