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Launching: Tweetburner user accounts & FriendFeed!
Posted by Bob Jansen on September 11, 2008 at 2:44 am
We’re happy to announce that your personal Tweetburner account and FriendFeed integration is now available!
Tweetburner accounts
We now provide our own accounts. This means that from now on, you will have to sign in with your Tweetburner account credentials. If you have an existing account, it will be migrated on your next log in. Don’t worry about your account name, it will be preserved and migrated.
Besides technical advantages we now have a basis we can use to integrate more social networks and other cool features in the future.
Posting to FriendFeed
You can now use Tweetburner to share and track your links on FriendFeed. To post to FriendFeed you will need your Remote Key. This is used to allow us to post your content via the FriendFeed API.
New bookmarklet
Both the new functions are accessible from the bookmarklet. We took the opportunity to make some improvements too. We’ve blogged about the bookmarklet changes before, but since we’re launching Tweetburner accounts it has some additions.
The bookmarklet allows you to log in to Tweetburner. If you’re logged on to the website it will automatically use that account for the bookmarklet too. The bookmarklet will use the Twitter and FriendFeed accounts associated to your Tweetburner account to post the link to. If you don’t want to store your account credentials in Tweetburner you will be able to give your account info manually.
Note: to use the new bookmarklet, remove the old link in your bookmark bar and drag this link onto it.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Dunno what you did but neither I (@SilkCharm) nor my partner @GaryPhayes can log into our Tweetburner accounts. When I try “Recover Password” it says that my email addy does not exist in the system.
b0rked :(
September 11th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Hi Laurel,
Thank your for the comment and your bug report. We had some minor issues launching the new features and accounts but all is well now :) If you have more comments or reports we love to hear them.
Michiel
September 11th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Something wrong? Neither the new bookmarklet nor the site is taking my posts. I keep getting a “posting failed, please try again” error.
September 11th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Hi cbs11news,
There was a bug a few hours ago which caused not being able to post with the bookmarklet. This bug is fixed now. If it isn’t for you, please contact us! :)
September 12th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
I’ve replaced the twurl bookmarklet in Firefox and Chrome but still get the same error cbs11news is getting. This is very frustrating! The old bookmarklet worked really well but this new one doesn’t work for me at all.
September 14th, 2008 at 5:58 am
Been out of touch for awhile. Can’t sign into tweetburner. Put new icon on bar, I get that part, but it says “page does not exist” when I try to go to my account and that they don’t recognize my email address. I put in my usual name and password
September 16th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
I have the same problem as #1. I can’t log in, don’t have a password, and I can’t recover it because the system doesn’t recognize my e-mail address. And I can’t create an account, because apparently my account already exists.
September 18th, 2008 at 9:23 am
Thanks for this service! Please keep it free! :)
September 22nd, 2008 at 1:20 pm
I wanted to research this subject and write a paper. Your post what a thousand words would not. Nice job.
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September 25th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Give back the old bookmarklet. The new one won’t remember my username and log-in.
September 26th, 2008 at 5:07 am
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October 18th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
This is an interesting article, your a very good writer,keep it up.
October 22nd, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Can not access my account and stats. Have not been able to since last week. Can you please assist.
December 3rd, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Автор, спасибо большое. ЕСть просьба - сделай шрифт в блоге чуть крупнее. А то глаза и так болят уже.