How Do You Handle Throwaway Accounts in Competitions and Rewards?
Switch on Reject Throwaway Accounts on the X actions in your Competition. Gleam then turns away X accounts that still look like a default, unfinished profile, which keeps out bots and people entering with spare accounts.
- Open your Competition and go to the How to Enter tab.
- Open the X action, such as Follow a User on X.
- Switch on Reject Throwaway Accounts and save.
Throwaway Restriction is on the Business Plan and above.
An entrant who gets blocked sees a message saying throwaway accounts aren't allowed. Once they add a profile picture and fill in their profile, X no longer treats it as a default account and the check passes.
This only tells you the account isn't a throwaway. Nothing checks with X that the entrant followed, reposted or posted, so look at your winners' X accounts before you announce them.
Rewards has the same setting on Business Rewards and above.
- Open your Rewards campaign and edit the X action.
- Switch on Reject Throwaway Accounts and save your changes.
As in Competitions, it tells you the account is real, not that the action was done.
The host has blocked X accounts that still look like default accounts. Add a profile picture and fill in your X bio, then connect again.
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