1) Twitter spam -- individual Twitters should respect their audiences, but in the end, they are the judges of their own audience. Your followers are following you voluntarily. If you spam them, they will stop following you.

I think that tweeting about a favorite product or two in conjuction with entering this drawing, especially if a bit of creativity in used in the tweet, will not be considered spam by most recipients of the tweet.

The primary point of the give-away is to generate additional exposure for TE. Allowing multiple entries accomplishes that to a greater degree than single entries would, at the risk of a having a few individuals who might enter hundreds of times.

In retrospect, it would have been better to limit the entries to a maximum of (4 seems reasonable), even though that would have been impossible to enforce (there is nothing to stop someone from tweeting as often as they like, about whatever they like), and would have required additional steps on the back-end to remove the excess entries.

Twitter is a relatively new and rapidly evolving medium. Everyone is figuring out what works, what doesn't and what is acceptable to the community and what is not.



2) Proxy Tweets
My initial thought process in offering this was along the lines of "give a quarter to a friend to drop in the slots at Vegas". However, as your friend, I'm not going to take a bag of quarters and play them for you. So, limit 1 proxy tweet. More than that, and you should take 1 minute and set up a Twitter account. Also, consider that if dozens of people ask me to proxy tweet, then in effect, I'm spamming *my* followers -- fortunately, I'm a relatively unpopular guy, and a couple dozen proxy tweets will quadruple my lifetime tweet total! :-)