Hunter Scott - Retweet to Win: How 50 lines of Python made me the luckiest guy on Twitter

Materials: https://media.defcon.org/DEF CON 24/DEF CON 24 presentations/DEFCON-24-Hunter-Scott-Rt2Win-The-Luckiest-Guy-On-Twitter.pdf Retweet to Win: How 50 lines of Python made me the luckiest guy on Twitter Hunter Scott Hacker In this talk, I'll share how I won 4 Twitter contests per day, every day, for 9 months straight. I'll discuss the methods I used, the delightfully random and surprising things I won, and how to run a Twitter contest to prevent people like me from winning. Hunter Scott is an electrical and computer engineer with over 7 years of experience designing and implementing hardware systems. He has lead electrical development on a variety of projects, from robotics to communication systems. He has experience in improvising and quickly building prototype and proof of concept designs as well as implementing mission critical, high reliability designs. He has a degree in computer engineering from Georgia Tech and is currently working at a startup you've never heard of (yet!). His work has been featured in publications such as Gizmodo, Quartz, Engadget, CNN, The Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, and NPR. His other projects can be seen at hscott.net.

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