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Re: Craft Beer Culture & Geeks vs. Snobs via Sam Calagione [Cross post]

Anonymous — Tue, 01 May 2012 19:30:00 -0000

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Re: Concord, MA: Home of the Shortsighted

John Refford — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:01:26 -0000

Yeah but, you gotta admit, cats on leashes is hella funny.

Re: Best Twitter List Management Tool: @Formulists [Updated]

rahul — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:34:01 -0000

any free alternative of formulist?

Re: Best Twitter List Management Tool: @Formulists [Updated]

Matt Solar — Wed, 11 May 2011 09:49:57 -0000

@Natalie Michelson ,
Just upgraded to the Pro... and had to cancel in under one hour. @formulists emailed everyone I was following that I am now following them. I received four emails/tweets within 30 minutes of close friends asking what the problem was but it would have emailed approximately 1,000 other people the same false message.

$1/month is nominal but the cost of such an error is simply too large of a liability. I have since cancelled my Pro subscription and am now uncertain if I'll trust Formulists (free) going forward.

It's unfortunate since it's such a good tool for segmenting lists and finding new people to follow. I'm looking to build meaningful relationships with people over Twitter and Formulists basically just made everyone question whether I was disinterested in them.

Matt

Re: Best Twitter List Management Tool: @Formulists [Updated]

Patricia — Tue, 03 May 2011 10:42:31 -0000

Natalie, I'm both pleased and impressed that you showed up and chimed in. When I signed up, there was no pro version and there was no trial for a pro version. I don't know exactly when the pro version came out but I've been using Formulists for well over a year now and if you need an approximate date, I can even dig up the first communications I made about it in a LinkedIn group, sharing how amazing the app was.

So no, I was never using a trial. I was definitely using the app before there was even a pro version mentioned.

Re: Best Twitter List Management Tool: @Formulists [Updated]

Natalie Michelson — Mon, 02 May 2011 18:40:55 -0000

Hi Patricia and Matt,

If you had lists created before the pro option was introduced then they should still be around and updating. However, the issue might be due to the fact that for a while we offered "trial pro versions" where people were able to access pro features (including making 20 lists) for the trial period. One the period was over, if they did not decide to go pro, extra lists would be emptied. Due to some of the confusion this caused we have since gotten rid of the trial period, though perhaps this was the cause of the issue? We also require non-pro users to sign in every two months just to signal to us that they are still using the lists and would like them to continue updating.

You can also get up to five more free lists by referring other users: http://formulists.com/setti...

Hope that helps,

Natalie from Formulists

Re: Best Twitter List Management Tool: @Formulists [Updated]

Patricia — Mon, 02 May 2011 15:04:24 -0000

LOL! Where do you think I found Tweetbe.at the other day?? Yes, a whole lotta OAuth goin' on and playing with the tools.

The sad part is sometimes you get used to one or two and think you're done and then one starts whimping out. Like now I use Twaitter. I like it for scheduling although the one I used to use (forgot the name) was better and disappeared. Now I find this one is down more than up so I'm now on the hunt for something else.

Will it ever, ever end, Matt? A pleasure chattin' with ya. Let's hook up (LOL!) outside of this blog. Meet me at FB or Twitter, or both. http://www.facebook.com/Nix... or http://www.facebook.com/Pat... or http://twitter.com/NVStweets

Re: Best Twitter List Management Tool: @Formulists [Updated]

Matt Solar — Mon, 02 May 2011 14:57:17 -0000

Thanks for the tips. If you're looking for alternatives more OneForty.com
has a lot of Twitter tools including list managers.

http://oneforty.com/search?...[]=category&facet_fields[]=Manage%20Followers

[Warning: you can spend a lot of time playing with all the tools in their
directory!]

Re: Best Twitter List Management Tool: @Formulists [Updated]

Patricia — Mon, 02 May 2011 14:49:02 -0000

Hmm, well play around with it and see what turns up. I was shocked at the 2-list limit just the other day but received no message until I tried to add a new one, then in red it said no can do.

But how do I like it? I think it's just a brilliant idea. For instance, I set up one list that I use to send out a particular message only to people looking for xyz. That list automatically updates so that I'm only sending that message to people who tweeted in the last week or month or whatever. That way, I'm not constantly messing around with upkeeping my list and getting the message out to my targets. I can spend that time elsewhere.

There's another list manager out there called Tweetbe.at which seems to be working with the same premise but it doesn't seem to be working. Their version of the automatically updated lists is called Smart Lists.

Re: Best Twitter List Management Tool: @Formulists [Updated]

Matt Solar — Mon, 02 May 2011 14:34:43 -0000

I haven't gotten very consistently creative yet. I have one list I play
around with and one permanent list. The latter is a list of followers that
I haven't organized onto one of several manually-made lists (i.e. must read,
beer geeks, uTest employees, etc.)

Just curious, how do you use it and like it other than the free-to-play
limitations?

Re: Best Twitter List Management Tool: @Formulists [Updated]

Patricia — Mon, 02 May 2011 14:23:58 -0000

Matt, how many lists do you have in Formulists? How many?

Re: Best Twitter List Management Tool: @Formulists [Updated]

Patricia — Mon, 02 May 2011 14:20:10 -0000

Matt, how many lists do you have in Formulists? How many?

Re: Best Twitter List Management Tool: @Formulists [Updated]

Matt Solar — Mon, 02 May 2011 07:20:10 -0000

I'm not seeing the changes you've mentioned - mine were automatically
updated last night.

Re: Best Twitter List Management Tool: @Formulists [Updated]

Patricia — Mon, 02 May 2011 00:58:01 -0000

LOL! I just told ya about the change. Previously we could have as many lists as we wanted. Now, you can only have two for free. If you want more, you have to sign up for a premium account. Log in and find out.

Re: Best Twitter List Management Tool: @Formulists [Updated]

Matt Solar — Mon, 02 May 2011 00:55:51 -0000

I'm still using it for free (not sure if there was any changes to the product) but I can't update "on demand" with a free account.

How are you hoping to use the list? I might be able to help with an ideal workaround.

Re: Best Twitter List Management Tool: @Formulists [Updated]

Patricia — Mon, 02 May 2011 00:39:15 -0000

Just as I'd assumed would happen, nothing good lasts (free) forever. I once used Formulists and just a week ago I realized my lists weren't updated. Went to check why and now I'm only allowed two lists for free. Am I paying for this? Nope.

Re: Help Aid Dogs Impacted by Japanese Tsunami via @akcdoglovers

Db — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 02:43:59 -0000

hey, i would really like to go to the 'unsafe zone" in japan to help and rescue these animals...... i cant believe this is going on>>>> someone please email me so i can go there and resue these poor animals.. db@mountainsidesecurity.ca

Re: The Data Behind the Photo

Matt Solar — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:14:42 -0000

It *sounds like* Posterous keeps the Exif data for their use but strips it from the public-facing file: http://forums.posterous.com...

I'd love to hear if anyone knows for sure which services, if any, remove Exif data.

Re: The Data Behind the Photo

Peter Kuhn — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:12:30 -0000

http://www.google.com/searc...

looks like many apps screw up exif

Re: The Cost of GroupOn v Google AdWords

Matt Solar — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:50:41 -0000

GroupOn's February revenue is down 30%. Think it's a sign of a bubble, seasonality, or simply a fluke? (I think they should have taken that $6B from Google).

Re: Help Aid Dogs Impacted by Japanese Tsunami via @akcdoglovers

Devon — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:08:56 -0000

Sign me up for $0.25 a tweet as well

Re: Follow Up: My Rookie Year at #SXSW

Derek Peplau — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 18:41:09 -0000

Nice post, Matt. I hope we both get a chance to go back next year. Knowing what I know now, I can't wait. I only wish I'd been there for a Stormtrooper photo op.

Re: Help Aid Dogs Impacted by Japanese Tsunami via @akcdoglovers

Kim — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:29:36 -0000

i will match for $0.25 up to 150 tweets as well!

Re: Help Aid Dogs Impacted by Japanese Tsunami via @akcdoglovers

DBK — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:24:29 -0000

Retweeted....

Re: Help Aid Dogs Impacted by Japanese Tsunami via @akcdoglovers

pete/charlie — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:17:44 -0000

Charlie the Puerto Rican Beach Hound, will match for $.25 a pop up to 150 tweets.