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Dewald Pretorius set one of Dewald Pretorius' replies as an official response to "How to make the alert digest perfect" in TweetLater

Dewald Pretorius replied on January 31, 2009 14:23 to the question "How to make the alert digest perfect" in TweetLater:

I'd love to add that functionality, but so far I've been unable to figure out if Twitter allows a follow action to be initiated from the browser's address bar.

From the HTML source of a Twitter page it does not appear as if that is possible.

Dewald Pretorius replied on November 01, 2008 14:47 to the idea "Best Practice for Twitter Auto Thank You Notes to New Followers" in TweetLater:

W4W Toronto, what exactly can you buy here from me?

Dewald Pretorius replied on October 20, 2008 14:34 to the idea "How do I auto follow new followers on Twitter?" in TweetLater:

Not sure what you mean with "when will tweet later start accepting new accounts again".

New account registrations are open and working.

Dewald Pretorius replied on September 18, 2008 14:09 to the idea "Best Practice for Twitter Auto Thank You Notes to New Followers" in TweetLater:

Marketers, listen to what your customer base is saying.

Dewald Pretorius replied on September 13, 2008 11:18 to the question "Tweets, Pings, And The Planner" in TweetLater:

I've integrated Ping.fm into TweetLater's bigger brother, PostLater.com

http://www.postlater.com

You can also schedule Twitter tweets in PostLater.

Dewald Pretorius replied on July 19, 2008 15:59 to the question "The Public TweetLater Twitter :)" in TweetLater:

I'm remaining very much subscribed to you on Twitter. :-)

It will work if you re-add your Twitter account. The problem of Friday has been resolved.

Dewald Pretorius replied on July 19, 2008 11:50 to the question "The Public TweetLater Twitter :)" in TweetLater:

Wendy,

I truly apologize. My tweet to you wasn't meant as a scold, not even in the least. I'm sorry that it came across that way.

What behavior did you observe in the software when you tried to change from public tweet to private DM?

There was a short period of time on Friday when my software had a problem validating the Twitter credentials against the Twitter system. I suspect it was unfortunately during that period of time when you tried to change from public tweets to private DMs.

That issue has now been solved.

Dewald Pretorius replied on July 16, 2008 20:57 to the question "Tweets, Pings, And The Planner" in TweetLater:

I'd like to tie in to ping.fm if possible, but they haven't yet published any details about their API.

Dewald Pretorius set one of Dewald Pretorius' replies as an official response to "Autofollow not working?" in TweetLater

Dewald Pretorius replied on June 30, 2008 02:29 to the question "Autofollow not working?" in TweetLater:

I see a lot of API rate limits exceeded in my TweetLater logs. Twitter's API is currently allowing only 20 requests per hour. If you're using a client like Twhirl, then it probably consumes all available API calls and leave none for your auto-follows.

If you could send me your TweetLater user id via http://www.tweetlater.com/contact, I'll take a look and see if this is the cause of your issue.

The auto-follow feature isn't broken. Many auto-follows are going through successfully.

Dewald Pretorius replied on June 25, 2008 11:40 to the problem "login problem" in TweetLater:

There are two possible reasons for the error you experienced:

1) Twitter could have been down / sick at the time when you tried to add your account, or

2) The credentials you supplied weren't correct.

I just successfully added a Twitter account, so it appears to be working.

Please try again and let me know if you have any luck.

Dewald Pretorius shared an idea in Twitter on June 15, 2008 04:33:

Enhancement Request: Threaded Conversations

I posted a Twitter enhancement request on my site, where I explain how Twitter can enable threaded conversations in three easy steps.

http://www.legionofone.com/twitter-en...

Dewald Pretorius asked a question in Twitter on June 13, 2008 23:06:

Losing Followers

Many people are reporting losing followers today.

Twitter employees, is this a bug or is it due to some proactive action you're taking?

Dewald Pretorius set one of Dewald Pretorius' replies as an official response to "Gmail setup for tweetlater autoreply forward problem" in TweetLater

Dewald Pretorius replied on June 11, 2008 22:21 to the question "Gmail setup for tweetlater autoreply forward problem" in TweetLater:

You can have multiple selection boxes ticked.

Not sure if there is/was a temporary problem with the auto forwarding in Gmail.

I'd say give it another day or so (leave the rule active) and see if your emails start going through.

Dewald Pretorius replied on June 11, 2008 11:27 to the discussion "Friday Disappeared into Big Black Hole?" in Twitter:

@mdy, I followed some folks, but I didn't unfollow anyone.

Dewald Pretorius replied on June 11, 2008 11:08 to the discussion "Friday Disappeared into Big Black Hole?" in Twitter:

The same thing happened again this morning with my Recent tab entries. When I logged on, the Recent tab had one single entry, and it started building from there. All the history older than the time of my log on was gone.

Dewald Pretorius replied on June 08, 2008 10:56 to the discussion "Friday Disappeared into Big Black Hole?" in Twitter:

My Recent tab entries are gone as well. The oldest entry I have is of 7 minutes ago (Sunday morning 6:50 AM EST) when I first refreshed the web page this morning.

Perhaps my entries were not in the cache, and my refresh triggered the cache to being updated? Newer entries (since 7 minutes ago) seem to be updating when I click refresh.

It's not a web-only issue because Twhirl shows the same - nothing older than 7 minutes ago.

http://twitter.com/dewaldp

Dewald Pretorius shared an idea in Twitter on June 03, 2008 02:34:

Feature Request: Filter Tweets

A very nice and useful feature would be the ability to filter out (block) tweets from one's feed that contain user-specified words or phrases.

It will also go a long way towards curbing porn and other spam once it hits Twitter.