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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.

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!

Stat Tracking for Twitter

Nathalee Ghafouri — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:28:16 +0000

Wish you knew which tweets engaged your followers most? Retweeting is a good way to gauge this, but it’s not the only way. You can also easily track which links get clicked on most by using the right URL shortener.

What’s a URL Shortener?

With a Twitter’s limit of 140 characters, every letter, space and punctuation point counts. That’s why a link that is 100 characters all by itself just won’t do. Luckily, many companies have taken this issue seriously and developed sites that shorten links down to around 20 characters. Just paste in your link to one of these sites, hit shorten and voila — a Twitter friendly link. And to make life even easier, most Twitter applications, including TweetFunnel, have integrated link shorteners so you can do everything in one place.

How do I Track Clicks on my Links?

It’s easy—just use a link shortening service with tracking capabilities. Our two favorites are Bit.ly and BudURL. You can shorten and track URLs directly from these sites, or you can use them in conjunction with other applications.

Below is a sample of Bit.ly tracking. You can see the total number of clicks on your link, the number of clicks from other people’s links to the same page, when people clicked, and below the chart it even lists all the tweets containing that URL.

Example of Bit.ly Statistics

If you’re using TweetFunnel, follow these easy steps to automatically shorten and track your URLs:

Sign up for a Bit.ly account here or a BudURL account here.
Then in TweetFunnel, click on “Settings” in the upper right and then on “Manage Twitter Accounts, Credentials and Scheduler.”
Then click on “Not Added” in the “Track Bit.ly URLs” or “Track BudURLs” column.
Enter your Bit.ly or your BudURL username and API Key. Your stats from links posted via TweetFunnel will display within your Bit.ly or your BudUrl account.

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.

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.