Slight delay – Twitter API giving us some issues with lists, but it’s sorted! Tomorrow we will be releasing some another fun updates to MarketMeTweet.

Here’s what you can expect:

Various Performance Enhancements

Bit.ly api keys so you can use your own Bit.ly account

Change times for timeline refresh

More locations

Twitter Lists!

Remember, updates are, as always FREE. Have you tried MarketMeTweet yet?

Since launching MarketMeTweet, the response has really been great.

“Tammy, thank you for finally developing something that real marketers can use” etc etc….

But occasionally we get this comment:

“It doesnt mass follow? AHHHHH! WHAT?! HELP! GOOD LORD!”

Ok so I just used some creative license there, it’s not that dramatic

But here’s the dealio.  Mass following is about to die a quick death.

There’s no way around it. Twitter HATES “set it and forget it.”  And truth is, you should too!  Think about it… you don’t just want followers for followers sake. You want actual conversations with people…. you want followers to be CUSTOMERS.  Your best shot of making Twitter profitable for you is to really take control of your marketing efforts. Manage them. Stay on top of them. Give them the care and attention they deserve. Obviously one of our perks of MarketMeTweet is that we make this a whole lot easier, but regardless, it’s something you should really take to heart.

Twitter can be a tremendous help to your business if you approach it right.  Whine and complain if you want that Twitter has the rules they do, but at the end of the day, it’s their platform.

June 2010: Oauth becomes 100%. Mass following will die. Will you be ready?

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You have a business.  You like MarketMeTweet. In fact you wish you came up with it yourself. Boy would your clients love you if you did….

Enter…. WHITE LABELING!

What is White Labeling?

White Labeling is taking our app, and labeling it as YOUR app.  Your logo, your name, etc.  You buy licenses from us and sell it on to your client base.  You are revered and loved. You sell millions. You retire on your own private island.

This is great. How do I do it?

Drop us a line here to find out more!

We recognize talent when we see it. So when the fabulous ladies at Supreme Social Media contacted us about doing some teleseminars on MarketMeTweet we jumped at the opportunity.

The first teleseminar will be held in the first week of March (more details to come).  Tammy will be on the call with the “Supremes” answering questions about MarketMeTweet.  We’ve very excited to be working with women who are at the forefront when it comes to providing thought leadership and ongoing education on all things social media.

There’s a lot of so-called gurus out there, but these women are the real deal Stay tuned for more info!

Now that MarketMeTweet is live, people have asked us, “So What’s Next?”

Well,  this week are starting to develop “CHURPIE”.

Can’t say much about it yet, but it will be FREE and it will be something that will help your marketing efforts on Twitter and Facebook.

It’s something that would work great in conjunction with MarketMeTweet, which we are going to continue to release updates for (a big one is coming this tuesday, Twitter Lists integration!)

So watch this space! We lost a lot of our blog posts in the blog deletion yesterday, so we’re working to build back up this part of our site!

By the way, we’re looking for some potential partners for some upcoming projects… so if you know of anyone, or are someone, let us know http://marketmetweet.com/partner.html

We noticed something interesting recently…

Twitter has ads on their site. Where it used to be app names it’s now cycling the same 4 or 5 ads, mostly related to NBC and the Olympics. Here are a couple of examples:

Just a quick update today.

It has come to our attention that some sites are claiming to have OAUTH security without actually having it.

We thought we’d go over it…

How Do I know if the Tool I bought uses OAuth?

Tools which don’t use Oauth require you to input your Twitter username and password directly into the tool, which they then store (doesn’t sound very secure does it? Giving away your private details to someone else) – Tools which use Oauth, require you to ’sign in with twitter’ which opens up a secure connection to twitter. OAuth secure web tools allow you to sign in and connect the tool. Desktop applications require you to sign in a obtain a pin, which you enter into the tool, so you never give away your password. Here is what it looks like:

You can test if your existing tool is using OAuth by logging into Twitter yourself and changing your password. Your tool will cease to work.

We decided not to say which ones are saying this, but if you want to know please comment and we’ll link you up.

Comment to let us know which tools you know are OAUTH secure.

We’ll start. MarketMeTweet is 100% Oauth Secure.

Been working to hard lately and a slip of the finger made us accidentally delete our development blog. Woops!

We’re adding some posts back, but some of them are quite outdated so for the most part we’re starting with a clean slate right now.

Oh well!

~Alan and Tammy

PS we’re releasing an update to MarketMeTweet this evening

It’s been a LONNNNG journey but it’s finally here – MARKET ME TWEET IS NOW LIVE!

Grab your copy at http://www.marketmetweet.com/marketmetweet-tour.html

First 1000 people get it at $39.99!

Market Me Tweet promises to be a game changer.

When you post your messages to Twitter, no matter which of the
popular applications you use, did you realise that you’re giving
away valuable real estate and backlinks to someone else?

If you use TweetDeck, Seesmic, Hootsuite, or virtually any other
application, go check your Twitter feed now and you’ll see what I
mean. Every single tweet you post on YOUR page has THEIR name on
it, plus a link back to THEIR website.

And organizing yourself on twitter is time consuming. Did you ever just want
something that will help you grow your following, without seeming spammy?

Something that makes you a twitter superstar in your OWN NICHE?

Well, this is it.

Grab your copy at http://www.marketmetweet.com/marketmetweet-tour.html

Big changes are happening at Twitter. In our lengthy discussions getting Branding Back this week we were able to find out a bunch of stuff.

And it seems Twitter has recently updating their own pages to confirm what we already knew:

OAUTH is going to be required for ALL Twitter tools in June 2010.

From Twitter Site:

What does this mean?

Twitter will now have a say in what type of tools access their site. Whereas before tools could break the rules and they had no idea where it was coming from, now they will know, and systematically shut those tools down.

How Do I know if the Tool I bought uses OAuth?

Tools which don’t use Oauth require you to input your Twitter username and password directly into the tool, which they then store (doesn’t sound very secure does it? Giving away your private details to someone else) – Tools which use Oauth, require you to ’sign in with twitter’ which opens up a secure connection to twitter. OAuth secure web tools allow you to sign in and connect the tool. Desktop applications require you to sign in a obtain a pin, which you enter into the tool, so you never give away your password. Here is what it looks like:

You can test if your existing tool is using OAuth by logging into Twitter yourself and changing your password. Your tool will cease to work.

Here’s Twitter’s explanation of OAuth…

What is OAuth?

OAuth is an authentication protocol that allows users to approve application to act on their behalf without sharing their password. More information can be found at oauth.net or in the excellent Beginner’s Guide to OAuth from Hueniverse.

OAuth Made Easy?

Now, you may be familiar with OAuth from creating applications with Market Me Tweet. We devised a way to allow you to create an application without actually going through the difficult programming. That’s how you get your brand. We should note that we are doing white label apps as well if anyone is interested.

How can Twitter monitor apps now?

You can see the post twitter does here about OAuth Token Revocation. And that’s exactly it. They can revoke a token for any application that doesn’t follow their  list of rules for marketing tools.

What are some of these rules the vast majority of marketing tools ignore?

Automation.  Plain and simple. Twitter HATES “set it and forget it.” They want it to be user initiated and user controlled. They are very serious about taking automation out of twitter with the exception of Scheduled Tweets and Reciprocal Following. They really want it all done at the hand of a human being. Mass following in a short period of time is also a big no no.

You can read all of these Rules here.

So where does that leave things?

Well… we’ve set out to design a tool that follows every single rule. Some people have asked “Why don’t you automate more like TweetAdder?”  And our answer has always been this.

“Because in a few month’s time, we want  the money you spent to be on a tool that still exists.”

And as it turns out, we were dead on. June 2010 is OAuth Roll out. And when we asked Twitter if everyone has to be on it, even the popular management tools? They replied. “OAuth is 100%. EVERYONE.”

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