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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 to provide your username and password, then you redirected back to Refollow with an authentication token (so we never actually see your password). OAuth is our recommended login method. But if you get an error page because OAuth is unavailable (which has been happening a lot lately!), then you can now go back to the main page and login directly there with your username and password. Or if you don’t really care that much about security (or just really trust us), this basic login method will save you an extra screen :)
  • Link from @mentions in last tweet: You can now click on a mentioned user (@username) within a tweet to load the details page for that user.
  • Link from urls in last tweet: You can now click on a url (http://site) to open that link in a new browser window.
  • Search in website and location: These are now options in the dropdown for Search and Exclude filters.
  • Reset Filters button: Clear all the settings at the top (back to the default of showing all users).
  • Jump to first and last page: When there is more than one page of users, you’ll see links at the bottom to go to “First” and “Last” page.

*Important* One more quick note: Please do be careful when following many users at a time (whether through Refollow, the web, or any other application). We have had a few users report that their Twitter accounts were suspended for aggressive following. There are no objective rules (that we know of) for how Twitter determines that following is “aggressive”, but we do know that the number of users that block your account or report your account as spam plays a role in that determination, as well as the number of users you follow each day. We recommend following no more than a hundred or two users per day (you can’t possibly take in more content than that, can you?), and making sure that you are tweeting useful content (i.e., not spam).

Enjoy!