Waltonchain Forgets to Switch Twitter Accounts, Wins Own Contest

Immediately after a tweet announcing the winners for its Valentine’s Day campaign, Waltonchain created a PR nightmare, publishing a response to the tweet written by an excited winner on their own account. Some responses made light of the posting error, with the first Twitter comment reading “forgot to change accounts? lol”. Others accused Waltonchain of rigging the contest and called out some of the other winners (@Waltonchainbot and @Waltonchainuk) as either bots or fake accounts. Waltonchain (WTC) is a blockchain-based project using RFID tags to monitor inventory in business supply chains. In the hours following “the Twitter incident”, as they’ve named