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Dewald Pretorius marked one of Megan 's replies in TweetLater as useful. Megan replied to the problem "Not receiving TweetLater activation email to activate my account".
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Dewald Pretorius replied on May 20, 2008 01:23 to the problem "Can setup tweetlater with email+filter@gmail.com e-mail addresses?" in TweetLater:
I've fixed the issue. You can now include the + sign in the email address.
My apologies for the inconvenience. -
Dewald Pretorius replied on May 15, 2008 21:28 to the problem "Daily Twitter Break (broke)" in Twitter:
My guess is, everyone at Twitter is hunting down and trying to fix the problem right now.
The problem with troubleshooting is, you never know how long it's going to take to find the problem until one second after you've found the problem. -
Dewald Pretorius started following the problem "2008/05/14 twitter down?" in Twitter.
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Dewald Pretorius started following the problem "500 Internal Server Errors" in Twitter.
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Dewald Pretorius replied on April 28, 2008 19:51 to the problem "First verification great, second never arrives, now no access" in TweetLater:
Jesse,
You can request a resend of the verification email here: http://www.tweetlater.com/users/resend
It's also in the right sidebar menu. :-)
If you're still not getting it after the second request, send me your new email address via the site contact form http://www.tweetlater.com/contact
I'll check and see if there's just maybe a typo in the email address on your account.
Best regards,
Dewald -
Dewald Pretorius replied on April 26, 2008 01:32 to the discussion "How do we fight Twitter Spam?" in TweetLater:
I've upgraded TweetLater.com so that it will not auto-follow the people who follow and then immediately unfollow.
This only applies if you send DM thank you notes. If you send public tweets or don't send thank you notes at all, you will still auto-follow those folks.
DM's are the only way to determine if the person is still your follower, without making too many API calls. -
Dewald Pretorius replied on April 26, 2008 00:26 to the discussion "How do we fight Twitter Spam?" in TweetLater:
Now I know what confused me. Apparently there's a trend on Twitter for following and then immediately unfollowing a person. That caused the notification email to be sent to TweetLater, but we couldn't send the thank you DM because the person wasn't a follower anymore.
Anyway, you can now select to send a DM or public tweet whether you're auto-following or not. -
Dewald Pretorius replied on April 25, 2008 12:44 to the discussion "How do we fight Twitter Spam?" in TweetLater:
Thanks for pointing that out!
I was seeing an error message from the API, and I now believe that I completely misinterpreted it. -
Dewald Pretorius shared an idea in TweetLater on April 24, 2008 02:34:
Best Practice for Twitter Auto Thank You Notes to New FollowersWhen writing your thank you note that our system is going to send to your new followers, do not include any self-promotional text and/or links.
It invariably leaves a bad taste in the mouth of your new follower.
Think about it. Here you are, you've just decided you want to follow someone, and the very first thing they say to you is, "Hello, do you want to buy my stuff?"
Not good.
Send a very simple, warm, and friendly thank you note. The promotional stuff will happen over time. -
Dewald Pretorius shared an idea in Seesmic on April 22, 2008 22:20:
Color-code friends' tweetsIt would be great to be able to create categories of friends, like the Friends Lists on FaceBook, and then color the tweets of a group in a specific color.
An easier option to implement would be if one were able to right-click on a tweet, and then assign a color to that person's tweets. -
Dewald Pretorius replied on April 22, 2008 17:17 to the idea "More notification options?" in Seesmic:
Okay, so I didn't goof. Twhirl just let me know via Twitter that Twhirl cannot do that at present, and that they take my suggestion on-board. -
Dewald Pretorius replied on April 22, 2008 16:21 to the idea "More notification options?" in Seesmic:
I think I messed up. Isn't that what the "notify for own tweets" does? LOL -
Dewald Pretorius shared an idea in Seesmic on April 22, 2008 16:15:
More notification options?Would it be possible to add options to Twhirl to limit popup notifications only to when one receives an @ reply and/or a DM? -
Dewald Pretorius started a conversation in TweetLater on April 22, 2008 15:28:
How do we fight Twitter Spam?At TweetLater.com we take Twitter spam very seriously, and we've implemented several measures to ensure that our system isn't abused by spammers.
With the scheduled Twitter tweets, you can only send public status updates, meaning only your followers will see those updates.
You cannot send @ replies, which prevents people from sending fabricated conversations. As we know, an @ reply is seen by the @name person, regardless of whether the person is following you or not. That's why we don't offer that functionality. The purpose of our service is to keep you in contact with your followers.
You cannot send direct messages, even to your followers. That prevents people from blasting out a direct message to all their followers. Many people have their DMs forwarded to their email systems. If we allowed the sending of DMs, it would have opened the door not only for Twitter spam, but also for email spam.
The maximum number of status updates that you can schedule per rolling 60 minute period is 12. That's a throttle that we found reasonable to allow regular updates without inundating your followers with scheduled messages.
With the auto follow and auto thank you notes features of our site, we implemented an architecture that minimizes the opportunity for Twitter spam.
If you unfollow someone, our system does NOT again automatically follow that person. Hence, if you found that you've auto-followed a spammer, simply unfollow the person and he will remain unfollowed.
As a best practice for sending out automated thank you notes, start off with sending public tweets until a few have appeared in your stream. That will tell you that you've got everything configured correctly.
Then, immediately switch to sending private direct messages. Having a large number of auto thank you notes constantly appearing in your stream will irritate some of your followers and they could see that as spam.
If you've selected to send auto thank you notes without auto-following, your only option is to send public tweets. That's a limitation imposed by the Twitter system. You cannot send direct messages to people that you're not following. If you don't auto-follow, you won't be a follower of the person, and hence cannot send a direct message to that person.
We're very open to suggestions with regards to additional anti-spam measures that we can implement. -
Dewald Pretorius shared an idea in TweetLater on April 21, 2008 23:49:
How do I send automated thank you or welcome notes to new followers on Twitter?Log in to your TweetLater account, and edit your Twitter account entry on our system.
The options for sending automated welcome or thank you notes to new followers can be found on that page.
The same options are also available when you register a new Twitter account on our system. -
Dewald Pretorius shared an idea in TweetLater on April 21, 2008 23:46:
How do I auto follow new followers on Twitter?Log in to your TweetLater account, and edit your Twitter account entry on our system.
The option to auto follow new followers can be selected on that page.
The same option is also available when you register a new Twitter account on our system.
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