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Where did my Review Queue Alerts go?

Nathalee Ghafouri — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:24:15 +0000

You may have noticed recently that you aren’t automatically receiving alerts when one of your Contributors adds a tweet to the Review Queue. This is because we’ve made a small change to the system that instead lets you control who receives these alerts and when.

Here’s how to start getting your Review Queue alerts again:

Go to Settings
Click on Manage Alerts
Add a new alert
Choose Review Queue as the alert type
Select the who and when options
Click Update
Repeat for multiple accounts or if you’d like multiple users to receive the updates

With this completed, the selected recipients will start seeing the Review Queue alerts again.

Test Drive Our New Guest Tweeting Widget

Steve Chipman — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:43:16 +0000

Give our new Guest Tweeting widget a whirl by entering in a guest tweet below.

The purpose of this widget is to give your organization’s audiences, customers, employees, members, etc. a way to contribute to one (or more) of your organization’s Twitter stream(s) with ease. Just think, your customers could tweet endorsements directly to your Twitter account! (after one of your editors first approves the content, of course)

After we approve your Guest Tweet (through the TweetFunnel editor interface), you will see your Guest Tweet in the right sidebar of this page. You can request Guest Tweeting for your TweetFunnel account under Settings>Manage Twitter Accounts>Modify Third Party Integration.

People and Things We’re Thankful for at TweetFunnel

Nathalee Ghafouri — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:02:20 +0000

With our bellies still full of turkey, we’re still in that grateful mood that Thanksgiving is meant to inspire. On that note, we’d like to say thanks to those who have helped make TweetFunnel’s growing success possible:

The Twitter API. Without it, none of this would be possible.
Terrific and thorough reviews like these: TechCrunch, MakeUseOf.com and Search Engine Journal. By people like: @leenarao, @timmyjohnboy and @seosmarty.
A talented and responsive developer, @johan__.
Great beta testers, @mlibrarianus and @ethnicomm who help us work out bugs and other issues so that everything is just right for wide releases to the public.
And of course, all of our users!

We’ve been TechCrunched

Nathalee Ghafouri — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:02:46 +0000

It’s a big day in the life of a little startup when TechCrunch covers them for the first time. I mean a REALLY big day. And amazingly, that day has come for TweetFunnel.

While the signup spike generated by the story exposed an issue that temporarily took our site down, we were able to address the issue and get the site back on line before midnight last night.

We don’t like to talk about ourselves a lot here on this blog, but this news is just too good not to share.

TweetFunnel Enhancements for September, 2009

Steve Chipman — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:11:27 +0000

We’re pleased to announce many improvements to TweetFunnel, including a brand new look and feel. As always, we thank Funnelers for their feedback and for their testing of these new enhancements.

Fully Redesigned User Interface

TweetFunnel now has a more visually pleasing, easier to navigate user interface. Profile information now displays for the selected Twitter account.

Saved Searches

Users can now search Twitter for tweets based on keywords and save those searches.

Implementation of CoTags

Published tweets can now automatically have the the carat (^) character followed by the contributor’s initials added to new tweets.

Support for BudURL

There is now an option to track BudURL URLs.

Detection of an Already Shortened URL

If you insert an already shortened URL into a new tweet, TweetFunnel will no longer re-shorten the already shortened URL.

Ability to Edit One’s Own Tweets in the Review Queue

Contributors can now make changes to tweets that they have submitted for review, but that have not yet been published.

More Widely Available Follow/Unfollow

There is now the ability to follow and unfollow people within the Mentions and DMs areas.

Improved Performance

Faster tab to tab switching and section to section switching.

Improved Caching Technology

The dependency on Twitter speed and availability has been removed. If Twitter is unavailable or experiencing performance issues, this will not affect any performance of TweetFunnel that does not involve posting or fetching of tweets.

Assorted Bug Fixes

There are a number of fixes to issues that have been reported to us by users.

Taking the Stage at TWTRCON

Nathalee Ghafouri — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:45:37 +0000

A few months ago we attended TWTRCON SF and had a fabulous time mingling with passionate attendees in the demo area. Fortunately, we made enough of an impression that those same people voted to hear more about us on the main stage and we were able to give a 140-second pitch to all of the conference attendees. It was an honor to be chosen and it felt great to get up and tell a room full of Twitteratti about TweetFunnel. The clip has just made it to YouTube, so we wanted to share it with you:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Just in case you don’t have 140 seconds to watch our pitch, here’s a summary:

TweetFunnel is a web-based application that makes it easy for multiple users to contribute to one Twitter stream.
TweetFunnel lets you have Contributors and Publishers. Both can add content/tweets to the “funnel.” Only publishers can review, edit and post tweets to Twitter. This gives a layer of editorial control for Twitter.
TweetFunnel can make Twitter less scary for businesses new to micro-blogging. It’s like water wings for Twitter.
With TweetFunnel, you can assign a tweet to another member of your team.
The interface is simple and easy to use.

TweetFunnel Enhancements for July 19, 2009

Pat Smith — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:58:56 +0000

We’d like to thank our users for all their feedback via phone, email and UserVoice. We have released a number of changes to TweetFunnel based on this feedback.

Multiple account management

Manage multiple Twitter accounts within a TweetFunnel account. Easily switch among accounts. Tweet to multiple Twitter streams simultaneously. View tweets across all accounts in each of the tabs when the All Accounts option is selected.

Bit.ly integration for click tracking

With Bit.ly integration, tweets from TweetFunnel will be included in your Bit.ly statistics.

Improved account and user management

Implemented a more streamlined method for adding new users and managing users, which includes email invitation and activation.

The ability to delete scheduled tweets

An administrator user can now delete tweets from the scheduled queue.

Improved performance

Faster load of tweets when clicking on tabs. Removed the delays in TweetFunnel that can occur when Twitter is having performance issues.