DEF CON 24 - Hunter Scott - RT to Win: 50 lines of Python made me the luckiest guy on Twitter

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Publicado 2016-11-13
In this talk, I'll share how I won 4 Twitter contests per day, every day, for 9 months straight. I'll discuss the methods I used, the delightfully random and surprising things I won, and how to run a Twitter contest to prevent people like me from winning.

Bio:
Hunter Scott is an electrical and computer engineer with over 7 years of experience designing and implementing hardware systems. He has lead electrical development on a variety of projects, from robotics to communication systems. He has experience in improvising and quickly building prototype and proof of concept designs as well as implementing mission critical, high reliability designs. He has a degree in computer engineering from Georgia Tech and is currently working at a startup you've never heard of (yet!). His work has been featured in publications such as Gizmodo, Quartz, Engadget, CNN, The Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, and NPR. His other projects can be seen at hscott.net.

Todos los comentarios (21)
  • @mawstrange5269
    8:30 Snow forts, sleet is a location in the game club penguin (RIP) and a club penguin server respectively. So an invitation to a virtual party I suppose.
  • @PhilNEvo
    You could also make it easier for yourself, by finding one of these accounts-- then just make a script to retweet whatever they retweet xD Fuck all the searching stuff, when you can have someone doing it for you :b
  • @Cfomodz
    One of the items on his list: "-100 dogecoin" oh wow - a whole Cent!
  • @Mr.Unacceptable
    When I first got sick I did the 4 hours a day thing. Entering every contest I could find for anything of value. I won $20K of products a year for 3 years. Lawn mowers, tools,phones, tablets, tickets and loads of odds and ends. I sold almost everything I won on Ebay auctions. I stopped because most contests were moving to FB. I don't ever want a FB account.
  • @nalfmalf
    "-SAO volumes 1-4 (anime) on DVD or bluray"
  • @JoshTatum
    Absolutely brilliant. Opens up some ideas for programming projects. :)
  • @kender1412
    they know who the number comes from based on the exchange and from reverse lookup databases. Most bulk phone number buys involve blocks in the same exchange. Some of the free phone number companies allow a certain amount of customization that allow you to pick a number or an exchange. Those need reverse lookup, which only give the provider on most numbers not business related. That's all you need, though.
  • hey black hats, just a normie here with a question: creating multiple bot accounts automatically to avoid delay etc would be against tos and therefore illegal in usa, right?
  • @Kriae
    Use an image instead of text, it won't be searchable.
  • @LuigiBrotha
    Awesome talk. Will try to make one myself :D
  • @Fahnder99
    Camgirl refused to write maxwell equations =)
  • @MarkPentler
    What a totally awesome and unique talk. Brilliant.
  • @kdvilla1148
    you could use a pizza joint's phone number or some random number you remember from you childhood. Jenny's number is a popular choice, I hear she's always ready for a good time.
  • @kwinzman
    From the title I thought it was about escaping a WindowsRT sandbox. ^^
  • @cond.oriano4945
    This guy got so many fifa coins and a 750g of olives so random wtf.
  • @user-mp7xv8hl5b
    I’ve won several contests on social media. No cheating, no bots, pure luck and dedication haha. Very good prizes too.
  • @pukesmiley2784
    This came to my mind when i was 14ish. I typed giveaway into twitch, entered a stream, won a game and left. Its the same idea, but manualy and with a win rate of 100%