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Jesse Stay · 12 months ago

Now I need to remove the need to enter your Twitter credentials. I'll see if I can get that fixed so people can use this that don't need their credentials in there. Thanks for the mention, Chris!

Rahsheen · 12 months ago

Sweet! This is a pretty awesome step, Jesse :)

Jesse Stay · 12 months ago

Also, let me know if this gives you any issues - I've tested it, but you never know what happens when it hits the masses. :-)

steven wilson · 12 months ago

A very nice application.I like it.

Morgan · 12 months ago

Nice job Jesse! It's great to see how fast the small, thoughtful companies can look at a problem and find a way to address it that meets the needs of people on both sides of the issue.

Jesse Stay · 12 months ago

Morgan, thanks! I've got a few more ideas that should also help to make Twitter a better place. That's my goal with SocialToo - you get to use it the way you want, and in the meantime we make these social networks better places because of that.

Kimberly LeRiche · 12 months ago

This is excellent news. I was already a SocialToo user and now I'm loving it even more! Thanks for the option.

Enduring Wanderlust · 12 months ago

This has a The Terminator cryogenics feel too it :)

JanSimpson · 12 months ago

Nice post - I like Socialtoo - alot - all except for the incorrect info lately - one of the nice thing is the list of unfollows. Now I didn't do any of the development on Twitter nor Socialtoo - so I really don't have the data on loads etc, but the unfollows have been incorrect lately - when they get the correctly - probably more to do with Twitter than Socialtoo - then this will be a nice beta - needs to be tweaked for v.1 roll-out - and I think this could be a nice tool that could bring in some money.

Highly recommend registering and helping with tweaking and usage -

JanSimpson

Jesse Stay · 12 months ago

Jan, if you e-mail me at jesse@socialtoo.com I'll take a look at your incorrect unfollows issue.

Christopher Kusek · 12 months ago

Thanks for sharing that - That itself is going to be one of the most beneficial reasons to use Socialtoo itself :)

Seth Simonds · 12 months ago

Talked to Jesse about this on Twitter just a few days ago, I'm impressed to see how quickly he was able to provide a solution. It's great to see a company move so quickly to curb a function that, however well-intended, was quite the annoyance.

Thanks for publicizing the fix, Chris!

Wendy Peters · 12 months ago

A great value add feature for those wanting to ignore the robot DMs and still follow people with quality content. This could be another step to seeing how it all shakes out in the wash. Would be interesting to see the uptake of this feature and how many users create a SocialToo account because of it.

Andrew Warner · 12 months ago

Well said Chris. I hate those damn autoresponders.

Taco John · 12 months ago

I RAN, I did not walk, to sign up for that site. Probably the most effective advertisement that site has ever gotten.

MarlisaOK · 12 months ago

This was my complaint just yesterday... it was annoying.
Thanks for the fix, Chris
~MarlisaOK

Meredith Gould · 12 months ago

Whew! Relief! Thanks again, Chris, for alerting everyone to a great service. (Thanks Jesse, for developing the great service).

Michael Fidler · 12 months ago

I find Jessie's service very helpful,especially right now! I have the flu and don't have the energy to thank everyone who follows me. I need to update my message to express this, but I always personally greet each follower ever if they receive an auto-reply. I don't want them wondering why I haven't done anything for days. I was going to suggest putting a slight delay on the auto-replies so it's not so obvious what they are. If I follow someone and seconds later I get a DM back, I know what it is. If it were to come an hour later, I might not! A few weeks ago I was having serious problems with my PC, and I couldn't stay online for more than 20 minutes without it overheating. With a limited amount of time online, the last thing I wanted to do was thank every new follower. This is another example of a time the service came in handy. As far as I'm concerned SocialToo can be very helpful. Now I need to update my message before I go back to bed!

Rodney Rumford · 12 months ago

Nice improvement Jesse. As we talked about the other night, more control for the users is great. Keep on creating: SocialToo is getting better by the day.

Cheers!

sujamthe · 12 months ago

Chris, humans rejoice, indeed! Catchy title brought us from friendfeed to share our love for socialtoo at this hour!
Jesse does quick fixes on socialtoo, real listening to the users!

Cheers!

Ray · 12 months ago

Chris, Thanks for posting instructions even I can understand.

Jesse, Thank you! Now can you kill the Magpie tweets? Not the Twitterer just the Magpie tweets.

I think newbies to Twitter sign up not knowing what they are doing. I unfollow some good folks just because I can't stand the irrelevant advertising.

Shirley · 12 months ago

Haha, nice. Yes, I had to go and read the other article. :-)

Steve Garfield · 12 months ago

Thanks. Signed up. It feels like signing up for a Do Not Call service.

Chale Espinosa · 12 months ago

Thanks for the tip, am new at this and already was getting direct messages.

Keep it up.

Debra · 12 months ago

Oh, this is a beautiful thing! The only way it could be better is if it would generate an auto DM in return. "Hi! I prefer to deal with people, so your auto-generated message has been rejected. Please try again when you're feeling human. I know in my case that takes several cups of coffee in the morning, but I do get there."

The only hitch: I can't figure out what I'm going to do with all my time now that I don't have all those free ebooks to read.

And I'm with Ray: Killing Magpie tweets and AllTop spam, which I actually get far more of, would be glorious as well.

Jodie · 12 months ago

Hmmm - question - is that option geographically-specific? I ask because I went to do what Chris suggested (because, I mean, really... when don't we? *grin*) and that whole question has either been removed from the twitter credentials section, or it "sensed" I was from Canada and unceremoniously said "No soup for you!" I have the screen cap, should anyone be interested in this mystery.

Jesse Stay · 12 months ago

Jodie, send me your screencap. You have to go to the admin page after logging in to set the feature. jesse@socialtoo.com

iGoByDoc · 12 months ago

Chris, great new feature eh?

Jesse, thanks for adding that to the software... I think SocialToo is great! I never did have it auto DM people however... but now I hope to stop some of the auto DM's I get. Button in my admin is checked!

I have a feeling you will be seeing a lot of folks sign up now to SocialToo... especially now that you have the "Brogan effect" in play!

Keep up the great work!

Andrea Hill (afhill) · 12 months ago

Thanks for the heads' up, Chris!

Now what would be really interesting would be to see the numbers behind the people who choose to block auto-DMs in contrast to those who send them (and how many folks block, but still send!)

Jesse Stay · 12 months ago

Andrea, I shared the numbers of blocks vs. sends on the Mashable post, but to answer your question on number of those who block, but still send - so far it's 36 people. (so far 192 blocking, 2,650 sending) I'll be posting more stats on this on my blog, staynalive.com as soon as I get a chance.

Paul Chaney · 11 months ago

Thought I'd help your comment count. Seems a little low on this one. :-)

Thanks for being an advocate for no-robot behavior in social media. You know my stance. Now, if I could convince you never to "pay-per-post" again, that would be great!

Jack Repenning · 11 months ago

My joy is decidedly muted. This is opt-out rather than opt-in, it requires me to register to opt out, and it's pretty darned cumbersome (have to register and then go to admin).

Jesse Stay · 11 months ago

Jack, I'm a one-man show at the moment, so I'm working on making that process much easier and less of a burden for you. If you want to see more stuff like what you mention, feel free to donate on the site so I can keep working on things like this - your thoughts are exactly where I'd like to be.