Out of Beta – new releases

Mar 27

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After a slow patch of new releases, we have just completed some important items that set up an exciting new release.

In this latest release we have done the following:

  • Fixed a bug where you could invite yourself to a tweeterview (doh!)
  • fixed a bug where users could add an additional @ infront of usernames resulting in an error
  • Added ability to insert URLs into tweeterviews, during the interview
  • Added bit.ly shortening to embedded urls
  • Google translate quick buttons added to published tweeterviews

The bug fixes speak for themselves.

The Embedded URls mean a lot when you are trying to share links during a tweeterview and will lead onto some exciting new features in our later versions, due out this year. Shortening them just means it takes up less space like any good twitter application should do, to retain your character count.

The google translate feature is a simple method to allow us all to read some of the multi language tweeterviews occurring every week.

So what else is coming?

In our next release (April 2011):

  • New home page. Which introduces a better way to use the site.

Since the site / app began users have created their own ways to use it. What we find is many of the tweeterviews occur within a short time frame of both parties doing the interview. So the current home page which works on a model of setting them up some time in advance, doesn’t offer the discovery we inteded.

Additionally a lot of users read tweeterviews post event, which also means we needed a better method of discovery. We also wanted to reward those users conducting lots of tweeterviews, so there is a top tweeterviewers leader board, as well as some other new things.

Release 2: (Late April or early May 2011)

Bringing back email addresses as mandatory at sign up so that users can retrieve access information. Given the account doesn’t use standard twitter info until after you login and oauth, many users are needing help to get access after a break from using the app.

This will help as it will enable us to turn back on the forgot password function.

 

Anyway if you have any feedback we would love to hear it. There are a number of other new features in this years road map, but it’s you that we want to help, so if you can let us know what would make tweeterview better for you then we will review for inclusion.

 

 

Beta 1.3 released – we have removed beta codes

Dec 28

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Things have been moving along nicely with our tweeterview roll out and happily after lots of positive feedback and a few kinks ironed out we are pleased to annouce that we have removed the need to have a beta code to access tweeterview.

Version Beta 1.3 still means we are in Beta, but now anyone with a twitter account can sign up and use tweeterview without having to request a beta code.

We also have rolled out several other minor fixes, including minor changes to the members logged in area, and fixes to the list of previous tweeterviews that users have conducted.

Our next release will hopefully include the ability to control whether your questions and and answers are tweeted out during the tweeterview or just the teasers.

Happy Festive season to everyone!

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Beta 1.2 now released

Dec 16

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Hi tweeterviewers.

Today we released some changes to Tweeterview that are setting up for the Beta code removal.dash1

This release 1.2 has the following changes

In the members logged in area:

  • A new dashboard when you log in to tweeterview (designed to make it easier to manage your tweeterviews)
  • Some auto prompting for key information (time zone management especially) for new users
  • An easily located invite panel on the new dashboarddash2
  • Renaming the members menu home button to “My Home” – this was causing some confusion. You can use this to get back to the new dashboard at any time
  • A very obvious ‘Create a tweeterview button’ on the dashboard.
  • New help tools that wills tart showing up throughout the logged in area for new users.
  • New pop up calendar tool to enter tweeterview dates when creating or editing tweeterviews
  • Categories have been added to the tweeterview management screen (this makes it easier now to find similar tweeterviews)

On the public side:

  • Improved search functionalitydash3
  • Pagination added on most search screens
  • Categories on the search / find screen, so you can easily find tweeterviews on topics you are interested in

Hopefully these will all make the experience better.

Version 1.3 is likely to include the following:

  • No beta code required for anyone
  • Ability to turn off live tweeting of the questions and answers but still send out the teasers
  • Integrated translation widget so that you can load up a finished tweeterview in language of your choice.

Let us know your thoughts here or via twitter

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New updates due out this week

Nov 30

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Later this week we will be rolling out some changes / updates. Beta 1.2.

These include a new dashboard for logged in members, which makes accessing either your tweeterviews, or tweeterviews you have been invited to, much easier to access.

It also includes some default controls that ensure your profile is setup correctly.

Importantly we will be releasing the categorisation tool. This enables you to allocate a category to the tweeterview you are running. This will make finding related tweeterviews much easier and also help users know what your tweeterviews are about.

Once this version has launched we will add some basic language translation links to the finished tweeterviews and prepare for an exciting new extension of the basic tweeterview (more later).

Oh yeah and so we don’t forget we are looking to remove the beta invite codes during December if all goes to plan.

Stay tuned!

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#Tweeterview being used in a #hashtag for phishers

Sep 30

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An important update:

Currently there is a spam bot propagating messages, that are dragging in users to a site named “Twitterview” NOTE this is not TWEETERVIEW!

The messages sent by users and fake accounts are this:

I can see who views my Twitter thanks to this new app! http://bit.ly/3hjbmy #TweeterView

NOTE: DO NOT USE THE SITE linked through to. the actual URL is: http://askmatthew.net/twitterview/

This site appears to be a phishing site that gets your Twitter details and then can use those details as they see fit.

The reason we are posting this message is that due ot the popularity of TWEETERVIEW and the similarity in name they have been using a HASHTAG #tweeterview .

We are not associated with this site in anyway and users of Tweeterview can rest comfortable knowing that we use the proper OAUTH authentication and thus do not capture or use your Twitter details at all.

Do not use the twitterview site at http://askmatthew.net/twitterview/ EVER!

Any questions please feel free to contact us via @tweeterview or by using our contact page.

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Using Tweets to conduct Interviews

Sep 4

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If you are new to Tweeterview, and it is pretty new, we put this site together to fill a void.

Many people were doing Twitterviews, Twinterviews, Tweeterviews etc using twitter, but they were incoherent and disjointed.

We also saw many blogs that had full transcripts of interviews conducted via email which just seemed to waste the space on the blog, or in main stream press sites where no space was given at all. Tweeterview aims to fill in that space. As well we wanted to stretch the current paradigm of how interviewing is done. The most modern form if it is video interviews, streaming or synchronized using tools like skype. With microblogging growing so fast it seemed crazy that real time interviews were not happening in a ‘prettier’ more friendly way.

While we haven’t released everything we have in mind for it yet, the current beta version are here to learn from, play with and test madly while we perfect the art of tweeterviewing.

This week we released some important upgrades that improved the speed for the people participating in the interview and we have some more tweaks due out shortly.

If you have any feedback or want to know more you are best to tweet to @ireckon or @tweeterview and we’ll get back to you.

If you want to interview us to find out more about what we are doing then heck use tweeterview!!

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