Quote Originally Posted by Syrehn View Post
The messed up part about SE using Twitter as a contest platform is for the players that didn't previously have a Twitter account and created one for the contest.

Their entries were not showing up in the hashtag searches; it's something to do with how Twitter handles spam prevention/new accounts. There was a Twitter question to SE about it that never got a response so it will be interesting to see if any of the new accounts are chosen as winners or if they were just completely SOL.
They wouldn't show in the hashtag, but that's why SE also had us @them. They should be able to see all of them because of mentions.