US coder wins 1,000 competitions using Twitter bot

Prizes range from trip to New York Fashion Week with $4,000 in spending money to virtual logos and Destiny codes

For as long as there have been competitions, there have been people trying to break competitions. After all, who wouldn't pass up the chance to win something for free? Competition clubs, for example, take the idea on an industrial scale, allowing people to pay a fee for a third party to enter a whole load of competitions on their behalf.

But no one has broken the concept quite so majestically as US coder Hunter Scott, who managed to win almost 1,000 competitions over the last nine months with the help of a single twitter bot.