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Re:Twitter Contest Winning as a Service by mcv on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @06:36AM (#10002545)
It'd have to be a lot more intelligent, and then some. It's quite a leap to go from matching "RT" and "win" to checking what kind of thing the prize is, whether it needs to be mailed or claimed, and what the location is where that needs to happen.
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Re:Twitter Contest Winning as a Service by wangarific on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @07:47AM (#10002747)
It would need to be a lot more intelligent to be perfect, but there are probably a few keywords you can use to filter out the bulk of prizes you don't want.
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Re:Twitter Contest Winning as a Service by 6stringmerc on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @10:10AM (#10003457)
I'm not sure how the filter would work to catch something like:

-tickets to Carrot Top at Golden Nugget Casino in Atlantic City

So I'm pretty sure there's going to always be a modicum of human involvement in the claiming part. It could auto reply with some PO box address maybe. He did note sometimes he didn't receive the item (ex: 'tupaware').

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Re:Twitter Contest Winning as a Service by jasonlotito on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @11:19AM (#10003957)
Judging by the word cloud [1], you could simply ignore all posts with "ticket" in the tweet and that would help for the majority of cases.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10003570

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