How to get feedback from Tweet Button

[Ebpo]

Hi!

(First of all, i don’t know if I’m posting this in the right category, just move it if necessary.)

Ok, so here’s the problem: I’m doing a contest, and by sharing on Twitter, the contestant can get more chances to win. Therefore, I’m adding a Tweet Button to my page, but i want to know: Is there anyway to know if the user really shared the link on Twitter?

I know I can put and event on my custom Tweet Button, but I won’t be sure that the user actually shared the link on Twitter and just didn’t close the popup.

Does anyone have some kind of solution?

Thanks in advance!

[episod]

You might want to consider using the Streaming API to monitor public tweets issued with the specific URL – then log the @usernames that are sharing the URL and consider those entries.

With the Tweet Button’s javascript event tracking, you can only track the fact that a tweet was issued but any personally identifying information tied to the event is removed (including the specific tweet ID or tweet text).

[Ebpo]

Thanks for the quick reply.

Unfortunatly, even if I monitor the tweets with the Streaming API, I won’t be able to know for sure if the current contestant tweeted my URL since I won’t be knowing its username.

I guess I’ll have to hope that they do share my link

Again, thanks for the quick reply.

[niall]