Obviously Twitter is a great place to announce your iPhone app. But there are much more hidden possibilities of using Twitter to promote iPhone application.

One if them is to encourage people to tweet about your app. One of the methods to do it is to hold a contest on Twitter!

Every contest presuppose prize. As far as you are iPhone developer, your target audience are Apple fans, iPhone and iPod users. These people will be always happy to receive some Apple stuff. You can never have enough Apple gear :) So you can throw in MacBook, iPhone, iPod or some accessories.

And what if you are on a tight budget? You can redeem promo codes for your app (if it’s paid of course) and use them as prizes for your Twitter contest.

So what people have to do to participate in your contest? Basically, the main thing you need is to make people talking about your app, because no one will buy it until he/she ever do not that your app exist. Ask people to tweet about your app, but do not make them to spam.

Here are some tips which can help you in holding your contest:

• Do not make people to violate Twitter rules, e.g. spam.
• Do not run contest for to long, because people will simply forget about it. Judging by opinion of other people who held contest, 2 weeks is max!
• Ask your friends to start contest. You need critical mass of tweets to make contest go viral.
• Try to promote your contest everywhere you can.

Sites which can help you with your Twitter contest:

• Tweetaways;
• TweetsWin;
• Twtaway;
• CoTweet;
• PubliciTweet;
• TweetGrid;
• Monitter.

Be creative, open-minded, think about people who will participate, throw in some cool stuff and your contest will be successful!

BTW, participate in our Twitter contest! We are giving away 20 promo codes for our new game – iQBloxing PRO. Contest is running till March 18, so hurry up! Enter the contest!

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