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Peep Lotto – The World’s First Twitter Lottery

written by John Chow on November 23, 2009

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For 22 year old Pete Danihel, it started as a school project for marketing class. However, Peep Lotto has since taken on a life of its own. The primary purpose for Peep Lotto (short for People Powered Lottery) is to convert publicity into prize by using Twitter. The more people who follow twterlotto, the bigger the prize jackpot. Currently, the jackpot stands at $1,372.10 and if nothing happens between now and Christmas day, a follower of twterlotto will win the amount. However, by the time Christmas comes around, the jackpot should be a lot bigger.

How To Enter The Peep Lotto

To enter, all you have to do is follow twterlotto using Twitter. There is no cost or risk to enter. If you don’t have a Twitter account, you can make one free of charge. There is no gambling involved what-so-ever. The site jackpot increases every time someone lands on the Peep Lotto home page, follows the Peep Lotto Twitter account, or an advertiser pays for an ad spot. You can see how much the jackpot is by checking the Peep Lotto homepage.

Peep LottoThe concept of Peep Lotto is simple but unique and maybe the reason Danihel received a 100% score on his marketing final. The project has received a good deal of press, with write ups from Darren Rowse’s TwiTip to television coverage from CityTV, and now John Chow dot Com.

I like to wish Danihel good luck with his project and I can’t wait to see what the final jackpot amount will be. Want to help Danihel increase the jackpot? Follow @twterlotto on Twitter or better yet, become a featured advertiser. If Danihel continues to get the press he’s been receiving, it’ll be money well spent.

Peep Lotto – The Internet’s People Powered Lottery

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Excellent concept. But his paypal account got locked and he won't be able to access it till 6 months from now so he's going to pay the prize with his own money.

Peter really did a very excellent project, I think he'll really score high mark. Good luck to everyone! ^_^

Sounds like a inspired idea in the milliondollarhomepage jackpopot ... pixels, them tweets, what's next?
Good luck with the proyect!

ehm. it might be good. But not for me.

Oh this is cool. I too followed them and let me see if I can win a big one this Christmas....!

its really much money for me

It looks like very interesting and the prize might be great too

Now that the word is out, these lottos will be popping up left and right.

What an idea! Wonder how he came up with that idea.

Very simple concept, but it's sure a good idea.

Here is a young man who has his thinking cap on!

Yep I'm following them on Twitter. Good marketing idea.

Twitter Lottery!! hmmmm.. sounds intresting

What exactly is a Twitter lottery? Sounds like a cool idea imo.

My, my. even lottery draw has gone twitter.

What a cool idea! These things let us know that the world is never running out of idea.

What a clever idea... I have to wonder why no-one thought of it before, maybe on Facebook. Then again, don't we always say "why didn't I think of that first?" when we see something we like?

The part about there being "no gambling involved" confused me a little, but I guess it's more of a competition than gambling because you don't pay to enter?

It become more and more interesting with Twitter

Wow, it seems that once a website is listed on johnchow.com, it's traffic ranking goes to the sky :)).

Via webstats: peeplotto

This is really an innovative idea. Im gonna try my luck :)

Cool concept, but scammers are gonna rape this.

PS The jackpot is now at $1420+, nice add-on for Christmas, wouldn't it? SY

So, how many of you actually have supported this great idea with a blog post or similar? SY

Twitter Lottery, it sound very interesting to me... i will check it today itself.

erk. something like that exist?

Very nice...you are the best blogger

Hi John,

That's a nice article you did for Pete. We couldn't be more grateful nowadays, anyone no matter of background can make it big, if they have the IT factor.

Hope the best for the kid.

I am following him too, btw.

Wow what a way to get a gazillion people to follow you. It might cost him a little bit of money at first but the advertising revenue that he can potentially get back off of this is going to be enormous.

BTW I just followed him

Wonderful Idea...but its gambling at the end of the day :)

no loss of money i don't see how it could classified as gambling

hes already got a few advertisers which means its working! if you read his blog there is a lot of in-depth information! Good post.

Very interesting... I will have to check that out

Cool! I'm going to make the jackpot bigger now.. I've never win such big cash prize before, hope I can win during Christmas this year.

Next thing you know Twitter will be feeding the homeless people and cutting your taxes. :roll eyes smiley:

Sounds like a great idea, the jackpot's only going to get bigger so it can't be bad at all.

I'm following :-)

Sounds great, but maybe he sould have launched it around Easter when candy peeps are huge.

Haha, this is one of a kind lottery system.

yeah you right
it is gambling

Great idea, and I have to say that the ongoing evolution of twitter never ceases to amaze me. The exposure Peep Lotto is getting from a-list bloggers is bound to ensure lots of buy-in, which is going to make this a very attractive proposition for potential advertisers and possible sponsors of prizes too. This is just the beginning, believe you me!

Kids are so smart these days! Thanks for the share John!

Thanks for this peeping into this, all the best to this wonder kid.

-Shanker Bakshi

Definitely an amazing marketing tactic. You would think on a personal scale something like this could attract some heavy traffic.

Running blog contests are always a great way to generate traffic. Running a no strings attached lotto like this on your website seems like a great idea.

Guys and gals, I think we should get this kid a few free backlinks / write ups, just to reward the initiative ;-) SY

I totally agree with you OES...

Cool! I'll participate!

Smart kid. Reminds me of the Million Dollar Homepage idea from a kid also.

Sure it is not the same one? It has the same "vibe", SY