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Re: Partial TweetLater Outage Due To Twitter Denial Of Service Attack

Dewald Pretorius — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:17:52 -0000

We gladly provide credits when we messed up. However, we will not be able to run a business if we had to provide credits every time that Twitter has an outage. Twitter is definitely not going to reimburse us for losses during an outage, which is not under our control or even within our sphere of influence.

Re: Partial TweetLater Outage Due To Twitter Denial Of Service Attack

Dewald Pretorius — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:33:19 -0000

This Twitter outage has had unexpected benefits.

I had time to mow the lawn, and I discovered my car, which I thought was stolen.

Re: Partial TweetLater Outage Due To Twitter Denial Of Service Attack

Dewald Pretorius — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:30:47 -0000

You need to look at the "from" source of the tweets in the Twitter web interface. Chris is making all his updates manually from Twitter desktop or phone clients.

Re: Partial TweetLater Outage Due To Twitter Denial Of Service Attack

Dewald Pretorius — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:22:53 -0000

Thank you for your support.

Re: Partial TweetLater Outage Due To Twitter Denial Of Service Attack

Dewald Pretorius — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:22:35 -0000

Thank you, I really appreciate your feedback.

Re: Partial TweetLater Outage Due To Twitter Denial Of Service Attack

Dewald Pretorius — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:21:46 -0000

I will definitely do that in the future. It will just require recoding of some of my processes. Unfortunately, right now, when I switch off things, I switch off everything. I will make it more granular for when issues happen again in the future. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

Re: Twitter Account Suspensions

Dewald Pretorius — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:40:53 -0000

Unfortunately TweetLater cannot help. You will need to ask for help at http://help.twitter.com.

Re: TweetLater Launches Keyword Following With Automated Twitter Profile Filters

Dewald Pretorius — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:13:41 -0000

You can access it during the free trial. Click the Followers item in the menu. It's the two sub-menu items called "Configure Friend Finder" and "Keywords". The potential friends will be placed in the "Vet New Friends / Followers" area.

You may just need to Ctrl-Refresh your browser if the menu items are still showing in gray.

Re: Twitter Account Suspensions

Dewald Pretorius — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:34:58 -0000

The only people who can help you with that are the Twitter folks at http://help.twitter.com.

Re: Twitter Account Suspensions

Dewald Pretorius — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:59:31 -0000

Thank you!

Re: Twitter Account Suspensions

Dewald Pretorius — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:13:53 -0000

That's really awesome and very thoughtful of you. Thank you!

Re: Twitter Account Suspensions

Dewald Pretorius — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:02:23 -0000

Thank you. I appreciate your feedback.

Re: Twitter Account Suspensions

Dewald Pretorius — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:01:54 -0000

Twitter has a large infrastructure with many servers that replicate data for performance reasons.

I guess it takes a while for the account restores to filter through the entire Twitter system. In other words, it may take several hours, or maybe days, until all the parts of the Twitter system know that your suspended account has been restored.

To be on the safe side, submit a support ticket at http://help.twitter.com and ask them why your tweets are not showing up in Search.

Re: Twitter Account Suspensions

Dewald Pretorius — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:25:31 -0000

LMAO. Your comment gave me a real belly laugh. Thank you. It's good to see there are folks with a sense of humor in this issue.

Re: Twitter Account Suspensions

Dewald Pretorius — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:16:36 -0000

Please submit a TweetLater support request and give me the Twitter usernames that you deleted. I will restore them for you if possible.

Re: Twitter Account Suspensions

Dewald Pretorius — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:15:24 -0000

Your banner is scheduled to run on Wednesday. It should be sorted by then. If your account is still suspended on Tuesday evening, please submit a TweetLater support request. I will ask the Twitter staff if they can restore your account before your auction banner is due to run.

Re: Twitter Account Suspensions

Dewald Pretorius — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:45:02 -0000

I have accounts that I have never added to my TweetLater profile and consequently have never been in the TweetLater database, which have also been suspended.

Re: Twitter Account Suspensions

Dewald Pretorius — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:28:24 -0000

Mate, what exactly does your name being in TweetLater's database have to do with this issue???

Re: Twitter Changes “From” Display

Dewald Pretorius — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:39:54 -0000

Unfortunately, "web" is not an option. That is now reserved for tweets submitted from the Twitter web interface.

Re: Twitter Changes “From” Display

Dewald Pretorius — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:20:21 -0000

As noted in the update of the blog post, we have not and will not use the source display as a brand-building opportunity. TweetLater is large enough and popular enough that we have no need to do that.

Re: Twitter Changes “From” Display

Dewald Pretorius — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:47:51 -0000

That's a nice idea, but the landing page is static. In other words, Twitter would link TweetLater to http://www.tweetlater.com and that cannot be changed.

Re: Twitter Changes “From” Display

Dewald Pretorius — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:16:19 -0000

Mate, I clearly identify my application on every single API call to Twitter. So, make that a few million API calls per day where Twitter can already see they are coming from TweetLater.

Re: Twitter Changes “From” Display

Dewald Pretorius — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:53:15 -0000

The value of the source cannot be controlled by the third-party application. If TweetLater supplies a source paramater, Twitter automatically adds "from TweetLater" to the tweet. The "from TweetLater" cannot be modified. So, tweets will either say "from API" or "from TweetLater" depending on whether we provide a source parameter or not.

Re: Delegate Your Twitter Account Management to Free and Professional Users

Dewald Pretorius — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:40:49 -0000

In the top menu bar, click Accounts, and then Delegate.

Re: TweetLater Scheduled Maintenance: Saturday May 30, 2009

Dewald Pretorius — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:49:12 -0000

The IP address won't help you. It is best to wait until the change has propagated to your DNS server.