Hello people, today I’m looking for suggestions about contests on social media. Will you help a young and little-experienced fellow?

More details:

1) As for now, the best social media for our business seems to be twitter, so we’re going to focus mainly on that;

2) I’d like to use this concept:
“the one who generates more retweets will win”

My main concern is: is there a tool that allows me to easily monitor who generates more RTs? That sounds hard, because it’s easy to know how many retweets my initial message gets… but how can I know who generated more retweets?!

If there isn’t such a tool, I can do the same on facebook instead, but on twitter we already have a decent number of followers.

Thanks in advance, all of you!

I should have mentioned that I’d like people to retweet a post of mine.

That way there would be a double effect:

1) people would basically spread the message I want

2) If the whole thing will be correctly planned, such a rule could generate a retweet-fever.

I could plan a contest in another way, but this is what I would like to do. At least, until someone explains me that it’s a bad idea, and why.
(or tells me it’s impossible of course)

EDIT:For your information, I can give away a prize worth a couple of thousands $, so it should be interesting.

Hello @rich-brooks,thanks for your interest.
Before planning the details I’d need to know exactly what is technically possible… BTW I was thinkng of something like this:
I post a tweet, let’s assume it’s something like
“Max is awesome, RT this and the more you are RTed the more chances you get to spend a day with him and his awesomeness [link to the rules]“
Every retweeter gets credits only for their “first-level” retweeters.Ok I’m losing into my own words… an example is better!

• I post the above tweet.
• user “A” retweets at 10:00
• user “B” retweets at 11:00 because he sees the tweet thanks to “A” – A gets credit
• user “C” retweets at 12:00 because he sees the tweet thanks to “B” – B gets credit, not so A

• to get as many RTs as possible, ideally not MTs;
• to push the users to RT more than once so that more of their followers see the message
• to spread also the message that our product is cool, and possibly
• to use the winner as a testimonial

EDIT:

Eureka! Maybe I’ve got the solution! I could pose the tweet like this:

“Max is awesome, RT this and get a chance to spend a day with him and his awesomeness. One chance for every RT. [link to the rules]”

And the winner will be chosen randomly. Between all the RT, I’ll pick one.If duplicate RT count, people will be likely to RT at least a couple of time, since the prize would be much better that a day with me… (I know it sounds impossible but that’s true, lol)

Please share your thoughts, any idea is welcome! ^_^

@demorden As long as they RT your original message you should be able to view RTs via @ and mentions on your Twitter account. You could always tell them that they need to  have “RT via @ (your Twitter name)”. Remember to make the original message 100 characters to ensure they can add their own message. I would also check Twitters’ rules on contest and sweepstakes. I know that Facebook only allows these types of promotions through 3rd party apps. Good Luck on your endeavors!# http://j.mp/An3mzq

The link is my signature !People generally RT things that allow them to add their own message. Inevitable what will happen is that they will reconstruct your original message. When creating campaigns be sure to keep it social. Another option is to create a hash tag story unique to you. I have two #Socialyttips and #SocialytSaturdayNighttexts if you click this hashtag (in Twitter) you will find previous tweets annotated with this hashtag.  I hope that this is helpful.# http://j.mp/An3mzq