How Twitter API restrictions affect sweepstakes and monitoring

1. Twitter Sweepstakes App.

2. Social Listening & Analytics tool.

2.1. Sweepstakes.

2.2. Monitoring.

X applies restrictions on the use of its API that affect the sweepstakes and monitorings you can run from Cool Tabs. The API is what allows external applications, such as Cool Tabs, to integrate with X and access certain data from profiles and content published on the social network.

Below, we detail how these restrictions affect each tool.

1. Twitter Sweepstakes App.

With the Cool Tabs X/Twitter Sweepstakes App, you will be able to run the following sweepstakes on X:

• Retweets: among all those who retweet one or more of your posts.

Changes and limitations.

• You can no longer run sweepstakes among followers.

• When choosing the winner, it is no longer possible to filter by whether the user follows the account.

• The X Sweepstakes App performs a random selection of all retweets to run the sweepstakes.

• Retweets must be no older than 7 days. If users' retweets are more than 7 days old, they will not be included in the selection.

Other specifications.

• The X Sweepstakes App is included in all paid plans of the platform. It is not available for the free trial.

• The use of the X Sweepstakes App is limited to 4 monthly sweepstakes per Cool Tabs account.

2. Social Listening & Analytics tool.

2.1. Sweepstakes.

With the Social Listening & Analytics tool, you will be able to run the following sweepstakes on X:

• Hashtags: among users who post a tweet with a specific hashtag.

• Retweets: if your post has a hashtag, you will be able to run the sweepstakes among users who retweet it.

• Replies: if your post has a hashtag, you will be able to run the sweepstakes among users who reply to or comment on that post.

• Mentions: among users who have posted a tweet mentioning an account.

Unlike the X Sweepstakes App, which selects winners by taking a random sample of entries, with the monitoring tool you will be able to collect all participation data (limited to 10,000 tweets/month).

2.2. Monitoring.

With the Social Listening & Analytics tool, you can continue monitoring hashtags, keywords, mentions, and X profiles.

Changes and limitations.

• X monitoring is available on demand.

• The limit of monitored content is 10,000 tweets per month.

• In sweepstakes based on a hashtag, it is not possible to filter winners by whether the user follows the account.

Other specifications.

• The Social Listening & Analytics tool has an additional cost.

• If you want to include it in your plan, contact us at help@cool-tabs.com.