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Mar, 2016 : Kloud51 ran the First Give Away Contest, Nice!
📅 - A while ago we started to think about running a contest on our Social Pages. As now we have multiple social networking pages. Twitter became the place to run the content. It was a joy to run it and let it go wild.
To make this blog post short and not going into many details, Kloud51 first Twitter contest was **[Giving Away $25.51 For You - Retweet & Follow to WIN](http://forum.kloud51.com/d/75-giving-away-25-51-for-you-retweet-follow-to-win )**.
The winner of this contest [has been announced](http://forum.kloud51.com/d/75-giving-away-25-51-for-you-retweet-follow-to-win/3 ) both on the Community Forum and our [twitter account]( https://twitter.com/Kloud51/status/710232642944421889 ).
We're so pleased to have run our first contest & giveaway and got our first winner as well.
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