May 2012
1 post
Refollow Service Restored
First off, I want to personally apologize for the loss of Refollow service on May 7th and 8th and any difficulty or issues this unexpected lapse in service may have caused you. As an extension of our apology, we’re giving all of our paid users an additional week of service for free.
More importantly, I want to sincerely to thank you for sticking with us through this snafu.
The information...
March 2012
1 post
100+ Professional Social Media Business Tools for...
Thanks to Chris at DailyTekk.com for the great article!
http://dailytekk.com/2012/03/05/100-professional-social-media-business-tools-for-brands-and-marketers/
February 2012
2 posts
10 Little Known Social Media Tools You Should Be...
Thanks to Neil Patel and enterptreneur.com for the great @refollow review!
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/222837
17 Little Known Social Media Tools You Should Be...
Thanks to Shawn at KISSmetrics for the mention in the article below!
“17 Little Known Social Media Tools You Should Be Using (and Why)”
http://blog.kissmetrics.com/17-social-media-tools/
November 2011
2 posts
Refollow Facebook
With the term “social networking” cropping up in quantity, and with the expanse of users currently on Facebook, it has become difficult to “friend” someone whom you would actually qualify as a friend. Call it Circles, Degrees, Groups, or Types, we all have a variation of friend-levels or networks with which we are connected. What’s the best way to differentiate and keep track of these different...
UnMarketing Refollow Mention
Thank you to Scott Stratten for using Refollow, mentioning us in UnMarketing and in the blog post below:
http://www.unmarketing.com/2010/01/05/saran-wrap-series-my-transparency-on-twitter/
February 2011
1 post
A few answers to your many great questions
Q. Can I cancel my subscription at any time, or do you lock me in for life?
A. Of course you can cancel at any time. The billing is done every 30 days. So you will automatically be billed by Paypal at the beginning of each period for whole 30 days. If you cancel, you’ll still get access for the rest of that time you already paid for, but you won’t be charged for the next month (or...
January 2011
1 post
New subscription plans
Well, we did our best to keep as much of Refollow free as we could based on Twitter’s new limits on us. The only way we would be able to offer everyone all the follow and unfollow requests they would like and still stay within Twitter’s limits would be to buy a huge amount of servers to distribute the requests. But unfortunately we don’t have piles of money lying around here, so...
October 2010
3 posts
Twitter forces us to come up with a business model...
Twitter’s new limit on POST requests from a single IP unfortunately makes it impossible for us to continue offering a free version of Refollow with follow and unfollow capabilities. We are still crunching the numbers on this, but here’s what we’re thinking!
In order to cover the hosting costs necessary to work around Twitter’s limits, we will offer a membership...
New Twitter api restrictions will not allow us to...
We are very disappointed to announce that Twitter’s new api restrictions no longer allow Refollow to support any interesting amount of users. Twitter has apparently now limited the number of follow/unfollow operations a single server can send to them (“rate limits”) rather that limiting it for each user via their api call limits. What this means is that we either need to stop...
Twitter has blocked our ip (again)
For the third time, Twitter has managed to block refollow’s ip (preventing anyone from logging in through OAuth). This has come without notification to us, nor do we have any answers from them yet as to why.
Here’s our request in case you are...
June 2010
1 post
Stop getting your Twitter accounts suspended! :)
So Twitter has informed us that the number of accounts getting suspended for using Refollow to aggressively follow is growing. Of course the number of Refollow users is also growing, but who really paid attention in stats class anyway?
But seriously, we don’t want you getting suspended (unless you are one of those annoying spam bots, then at least you don’t have feelings when you get...
February 2010
2 posts
Good news - OAuth is back!
After some constructive discussions with the Twitter API Support group, Twitter has lifted the suspension and re-enabled OAuth for Refollow. We discussed some valid concerns that Refollow could be used as a tool for spammers to aggressively follow and target users. The challenge is that it’s the same user experience that enables the non-spammers to discover interesting people and help narrow...
We've been suspended by Twitter :(
Despite our best efforts to reach out to Twitter to clarify what they are asking us to change about Refollow (which went ignored by them), Twitter has decided to suspend Refollow. This means you can no longer use OAuth to login (but for now, basic Twitter authentication still works).
We assume Twitter knows what is best for their overall ecosystem, but we certainly question what exactly that...
August 2009
1 post
New update released
It seems like everyone is liking the new features from the 1.0 release, and we have received some great suggestions. This release (1.0.3) includes the top suggestions as well as a work-around for the recent unreliability of OAuth.
New features:
Option to login through basic authentication or through OAuth: OAuth (which we were already using) is more secure since you are directed through Twitter...
July 2009
3 posts
Version 1.0 Launched!
(Actually now version 1.0.2 after a couple quick bug fix releases last night…) We’ve received so many great feature suggestions from users since our beta launch a few months ago, and this release incorporates some of our favorites:
With/Without Picture filters
If you can’t come up with a picture for Twitter, the odds are you wont come up with much content either.. These filters...
Getting started (the basics)
The first time you login to Refollow, you’ll notice that there’s a lot going on. We chose to pack as much functionality and info as we could into a single screen rather than making you click through multiple screens in the app. It may be a little confusing at first, but it should quickly become very intuitive and powerful!
Here’s the screen layout:
At the top of the screen...
Here's your blog!
We’re up to almost 15,000 loyal Refollow users and everyone keeps asking for a blog with more detail than our Twitter feed at @refollow. We’ve been spending most of our time writing code instead of blogs, but now that we are out of beta, I guess it’s time to give you your blog!
For those that don’t know us, Refollow.com is a Twitter relationship manager that was developed...
