Gary from View from the Wing received this response from Marriott:
- It turns out there was a late surge in participants during Week 2 of the campaign that caused a temporary glitch when some errant code came up against the volume limits that Twitter has in place. Within 24 hours all was fixed and the impacted members received a batch of points. We are not expecting this to happen again
Marriott allows users to earn points from completing social media actions, one of the easiest ways to get points is to tweet out something with #MembersGetIt #RewardsPoints #FindYourRoute #MRpoints in it. You can get 50 points every day by doing this (automation no longer seems to work). Recently Marriott has sent out an e-mail stating:
Apologies — we weren’t able to award points for your recent post. Here are the most common reasons why this might have happened:
- Your Marriott Rewards account is configured to earn miles instead of points. Please change this in your Marriott Rewards account settings.
- You have reached the annual maximum of 2,000 points earned through #MRpoints. You can earn points through #MRpoints again starting next year.
- Your Marriott Rewards account may no longer be active. Please contact Marriott Rewards Customer Care to resolve the issue.
I don’t see anything in the fine print that limits users to 2,000 points annually, but it seems that Marriott is enforcing this anyway.
