Is The Youtube Response Point System Working?

[joelcr]

Just like to ask if the Youtube Response Point System is working. When I click this option in the Contest Burner settings, it does not show up in the list of point systems that I chose.

It is also not mentioned in how you can promote using Youtube below the "Get My Links" area.

[greg]

Are you adding a video url in the "Video URLs" box on the right?

[joelcr]

yes, we've added the video url on the right. it works on one test and does not work on some. it's quite unstable based on our tests.

[greg]

Originally Posted by joelcr

yes, we've added the video url on the right. it works on one test and does not work on some. it's quite unstable based on our tests.

In order to award YouTube points we need to know who to award the points to.
The contest points are tracked by the Twitter username, not the YouTube username, so in order to award points from YouTube we have to have a link between the YouTube username and the Twitter username. The way we do this is by linking the usernames when the person accesses the get links form and enters their usernames.
If someone posts a response to your video on YouTube but they have never visited the get links page and entered their Twitter and YouTube usernames then ContestBurner will not award the point because we don't know what Twitter account they belong to.

If after posting the video response, the person then visits the get links page and enters their usernames, ContestBurner will then award the points the next time it queries YouTube.