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Announcing the Pre-Release Team, making a bulletproof Tweetboard

Monday, October 5th, 2009

shieldThe Tweetboard team has been working hard behind the scenes, and is getting ready to put a bunch of new features out the door.

While in the past we have released features to all TB instances simultaneously, we have determined that it works best when rolling out features to a smaller number of users. This allows us to a) test new functionality more extensively, b) tweak features on the fly with little/no impact to our general userbase, c) gauge our audience’s interest in a specific feature and d) overall, bring you a more polished product when each feature finally gets released.

For these reasons we have created the Tweetboard Pre-Release Team, a group of brave Twitter/Tweetboard users who will be getting immediate access to our roll-outs, once features have passed the initial QA phase. The group is currently composed of 44 users, however we are taking requests via our ticket system to officially join the Team.

Please feel free to submit a request to join the pre-release team if:

  • You own a highly trafficked site (OR)
  • You have 1000 (+) Twitter followers (OR)
  • You consider yourself a “Conversational” Twitter user (you often reply to your followers, and they reply back) (OR)
  • You consider yourself a “Broadcasting” Twitter user (you seldom reply to your followers, or you don’t get many replies) (OR)
  • You have previous QA testing experience (and are good at it!) (OR)
  • You don’t meet any of the above requirements, but you are a BIG Tweetboard fan :)

Click Here to Join the Tweetboard Pre-Release Team

Note: Approval is not guaranteed. Please be patient, we are processing these requests manually.

Our current pre-release team members are:

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TrinityMMo
walidmrealtor
seifertj
RNchat
CuteGecko
bluetoquetips
matthewscoaches
mtm_chicago
asltweets
fcaps
dramativity
ChristianBoys
xcheque
SiteSuites1
parents_help
Aarinfantasy
digibillydesign
derigel
KingPinX
doctorkaraca
vBHispano
AndrewAWilson
billwesterman
ChristnImpctNws
humanbeatboxcom
CastleType
4sixisix
deuxdoom
FlameHabbo
PhilCoyne
DevDroidian
StayBankdotcom
elm6r
WeRLife
LouisC
RolePlayGateway
CezzBB
Retropinuplady
connectgaming
aznextgov
Superchmed
PhilBaumann
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Why you should (really) register your own Twitter Application – TODAY!

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

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If you follow Twitter related news, you may have read this article on “API name squating”.

As you probably know, Tweetboard has been honored with being a finalist at the Launchpad contest at the Twitter Conference in LA next week.

Well, we were going to hold this announcement until the conference, however, since we’ve been advised that this is becoming a common practice among Cyber/Name Squatters, I’ll give you a solid hint right now on what’s coming!

And here it goes: I strongly suggest that, if you use Tweetboard, or plan to do so in the near future, you register your own Twitter application YESTERDAY. Furthermore, I suggest that you register 2 apps: one named as your website (MySite.com) and one named as your Brand (i.e TacoBell).

Register your Twitter Application now

Why? Well, I’ll let that part to your imagination, OR better yet, just don’t think about it, go ahead and register your application right now! On Sept. 22 (next Tuesday) you will know why!

Whoa, PDiddy does get a lot of replies!

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

We are testing a new functionality (to be announced soon), where you will be able to reply to anyone in the Twittersphere, and the original post, along with all replies, including yours, will get “pulled” to your Tweetboard, with the original post showing up as the parent Tweet… pretty awesome.

You will truly be able to “Bring the Twittersphere to your Content” with this feature.

To this effect, I have started following a few “celebrities” via our testing account, and I must say I’m trully amazed at the number of replies some of them get!

Check out how many responses PDiddy (@iamdiddy) got to his tweet on the incident that occurred during the Session of Congress, earlier tonight… Whoa!! 177 tweets and counting.

How many do you think President Obama (@BarackObama) got for this tweet?

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