Twitter/X Contests for Tech Brands — What Works in 2026
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Read more →22 contests with public online voting in New Hampshire — Athlete of the Week and more. Real, paced votes; honest guidance on each contest's rules.
Statewide New Hampshire · High School on SI / SBLive Sports (si.com/high-school/new-hampshire)
Weekly statewide fan poll hosted at si.com/high-school/new-hampshire by High School on SI (Minute Media / SBLive Sports), open to any fan to vote for the top New Hampshire prep athlete across all NHIAA-sanctioned sports, all four divisions. Voting closes Sunday night.
NHSportsPage.com's weekly spring fan vote for standout prep baseball performances across New Hampshire — five nominees chosen by editors, public voting hosted on sportngin, closes Thursday at 7 a.m., winner earns a Choose Community shirt and a $20 Buffalo Wild Wings gift card.
Statewide New Hampshire · High School on SI / SBLive Sports (si.com/high-school/new-hampshire)
Annual spring fan vote hosted at si.com/high-school/new-hampshire by High School on SI (SBLive Sports / Minute Media), naming the top NH prep baseball player across all four NHIAA divisions. Voting is free, no registration required, and closes in late May or June.
The High School on SI statewide fan vote for standout NHIAA football performances. SI editors select up to twelve nominees from across all four NHIAA divisions each week; anyone can vote with no account, and the ballot closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific — a day earlier than many regional polls in other states.
NHSportsPage.com's weekly fan vote for NH girls basketball, sponsored by the Community College System of NH (CCSNH) and Adrenaline Fundraising. Five nominees chosen by the editors each week; winners receive a Choose Community shirt plus a $20 Buffalo Wild Wings gift certificate. The ballot closes every Thursday at 7 a.m.
The NHSportsPage / CCSNH weekly fan vote covering both girls soccer and volleyball nominees on a single fall-season ballot. Closes Thursday at 7 a.m. — not Sunday, not Friday — and the winner earns a Choose Community shirt plus a $20 Buffalo Wild Wings gift certificate.
Statewide New Hampshire · High School on SI / SBLive Sports (si.com/high-school/new-hampshire)
Annual multi-sport fan vote hosted at si.com/high-school/new-hampshire by High School on SI (SBLive Sports / Minute Media), recognising the top New Hampshire prep athlete at the end of each season. Separate finalist votes run for football, baseball, and other sports statewide.
Statewide New Hampshire · High School on SI (si.com/high-school/new-hampshire)
Fall-specific guide to the High School on SI weekly fan poll for New Hampshire prep athletes, covering football, soccer, cross country, and volleyball nominees across all four NHIAA divisions. The Sept–Nov 2025 window closes each Sunday, no sign-up needed.
Statewide New Hampshire · High School on SI (si.com/high-school/new-hampshire)
Winter-specific guide to the High School on SI weekly fan poll for New Hampshire prep athletes, drawing nominees from basketball, ice hockey, wrestling, indoor track, and swimming across all four NHIAA divisions. The Dec-Mar window closes each Sunday, no sign-up needed, and the Manchester-Nashua-Concord corridor supplies the deepest field.
NHSportsPage.com's weekly winter fan vote for New Hampshire boys basketball, sponsored by the Community College System of NH and Adrenaline Fundraising, with Buffalo Wild Wings backing the prize. A separate ballot from the site's girls basketball poll and from the SI-hosted statewide athlete vote — same publisher, same sponsors, different sport, different pool of nominees.
The NHSportsPage.com statewide fan vote for New Hampshire high school and community college baseball, sponsored by the Community College System of NH (CCSNH) and Adrenaline Fundraising. A spring-season weekly poll, run on the same sportngin platform and prize structure as NHSportsPage's football and basketball Player of the Week polls, but built for baseball's shorter, weather-compressed season.
The NHSportsPage.com statewide fan vote for New Hampshire high school football, sponsored by the Community College System of NH and Adrenaline Fundraising. Five nominees each week, closes Thursday at 7 a.m. — earlier than almost any other weekly poll in New England — and the winner earns a CCSNH shirt plus a $20 Buffalo Wild Wings gift card.
Seacoast New Hampshire (Strafford and Rockingham counties) · SeacoastOnline / Foster's Daily Democrat (Gannett)
SeacoastOnline and Foster's Daily Democrat, both Gannett-owned papers covering coastal New Hampshire, run a weekly Athlete of the Week fan vote that names a boys' honoree and a girls' honoree every week. The ballot appears at seacoastonline.com/sports and fosters.com/sports, allows roughly one vote per device per day, and requires no account.
Seacoast New Hampshire (Rockingham and Strafford counties) · SeacoastOnline (Gannett)
SeacoastOnline (Gannett) runs a standalone girls' Athlete of the Week fan vote for New Hampshire's coastal towns, separate from its combined boys-and-girls ballot. Oyster River, Exeter, Spaulding, and Dover supply most nominees. The confirmed January 2026 winner, an Exeter High School nominee, took just over 32% of the vote.
Conway Daily Sun's annual reader vote for Mount Washington Valley, 130 categories spanning ski resorts, restaurants, shops, and lodging across North Conway, Jackson, Bartlett, and Fryeburg.
New Hampshire has at least nine competing readers-choice ballots; Best of NH is the only one that covers all eight regions in a single 200+ category vote.
New Hampshire Magazine's Best of NH readers-choice program has run since 2000 under Yankee Publishing. The 2025 ballot opened January 12, closed March 12, and pulled more than 97,000 votes across confirmed categories like dentist, restaurant, salon, gym, realtor, contractor, martial arts, and photographer.
Laconia Daily Sun's annual nominate-then-vote readers-choice awards for the Lakes Region, 194 categories covering every local business type in Laconia, Meredith, Gilford, and Tilton.
SeacoastOnline's annual New Hampshire readers-choice ballot, run on the Gannett-network YourChoiceAwards.com platform and capped at one vote per day, where completing 25 or more categories enters a supporter into a $500 gift-card drawing ahead of the 2025 winners gala, in what SeacoastOnline calls the state's most competitive local contest by volume.
Hippo Press's annual readers' poll for the Manchester-Nashua metro in Southern New Hampshire, ballots open January through February, and the alt-weekly publishes a top-five ranking per category, not one winner, in its April issue. Red Arrow Diner is the ballot's most consistent top finisher.
Lakes Region HBA's annual fall Parade of Homes, a People's Choice vote for builders and remodelers working in Laconia, Meredith, and Gilford. No public vote count, category list, or fixed dates are confirmed; check lakesregionhba.com directly each cycle before promoting an entry.
The New Hampshire Union Leader's own readers-choice ballot, roughly 180 categories on the SecondStreet platform, centered on Manchester and reaching statewide.
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