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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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