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# Can I be picked with a private account?

Short version: **you won't have any chance to be picked with a private account** (at the time of the draw).

### Going a little deeper in the explanations

All our services **rely on public data provided by the Twitter API** (as well as other pickers), so we need to understand how Twitter is delivering these data.

**When your Twitter account is private, your public profile isn't available publicly but only for your followers** as well as your tweets, likes, retweets and everything you made on Twitter, until you get unsuspended. **It's the same behavior for the data provided by the Twitter API**: they will not share any tweet, like, retweet or information about your account.

__We have 2 ways to handle contests on Pickaw__: by importing them or creating them.

* **When a contest is imported**, we're loading all the retweets when the contest organizer decide to do so. **If your account is protected at the time of the load of retweets, your retweet will not be returned by the Twitter API**, and you will not be in the contest entries, so you'll not be be able to be picked.

* **When a contest is created**, we're using a different method but the result is the same: we're saving each retweet when it is made in realtime. If you're retweeting when you're not private, you will have an entry in our database. **But if you're private at the time of the draw and you're picked: you'll be automatically rejected** by the check "Content doesn't exist anymore." because we're verifying if the retweet still exists at this time, and as it is a protected retweet we can't see, it will fail.

For the same reasons, [you won't have any chance to be picked if you're suspended](/en/article/can-i-be-picked-with-a-suspended-account-1lxnpjz/).

| This is the same behavior for all pickers, any private account will not have any chance to be picked and win because Twitter doesn't return data of a private account.