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Some time ago, I introduced the unabridged version of SecretTweet (you can view the Unabridged version here and you can view the blog entry about the unabridged version here). Tonight I’m excited to introduce @secrettweet3. All secrets that are published to the unabridged version will also be published to http://twitter.com/SecretTweet3.

WHY? Some fans of SecretTweet asked for it. There’s no reason NOT to have it. This keeps those fans who like to receive (for the most part) fully legible, polite, and safe-for-work submissions to secrettweet to follow @SecretTweet and fans who want to read EVERYTHING to follow @SecretTweet and @SecretTweet3.

Follow @SecretTweet3 now!

Things *should* be working properly but, like with any new addition, there may be a few bugs. Just let me know if something goes wrong! Enjoy (and Happy Holidays!)

Regards,
– @mozunk,
The SecretTweet.com Admin Guy Dude

PS: Oh — for those wondering, @secrettweet2 is the rarely used Spanish version of @secrettweet. ;)

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I sent out a tweet a couple of days ago asking for help moderating the submissions to SecretTweet. I received several (over 50) emails by the end of the day offering help. I randomly chose five of the volunteers and created a moderation area for them to use.

WHY? I’m a pretty busy person and SecretTweet isn’t the only online project I have going. I receive tons of email every day and having to moderate the SecretTweet submissions via email by myself was causing a clog/back up in the approval of tweets. I figure with five people helping me out, a submitted secret/tweet shouldn’t sit in queue for more than an hour or two before someone is able to tend to it and push it out.

I’m not going to publish the twitter names of the volunteers unless they give me permission.

Just keeping you informed as to what’s going on with the site ;)

Have a good weekend,
Kevin Smith
@mozunk — SecretTweet Admin

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@replies and links are automatically formatted to links now. SecretTweet now parses links and replies just like Twitter.com does…

I should also mention that http:// is required for links…I might actually disable links (but not @replies) just to prevent misuse. We’ll see…

Best,
Kevin, @mozunk — the secrettweet guy

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I stated yesterday that I was going to work on a way to drop the collection of IP addresses.

I’m happy to announce that SecretTweet is now 100% completely anonymous. Now, not even your IP address is collected. Hopefully this change to the way ST works will allow even the most skeptical of users to feel safe using ST for what the way it was intended to be used. Of course, there are going to be some who still feel uncomfortable sharing, and that is understandable…SecretTweet will always be here for those less paranoid lol.

Regards,
Kevin, @mozunk

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I am very happy that Sarah Lane decided SecretTweet.com was interesting enough to be featured on Revision3.com’s popSiren (http://revision3.com/popsiren). However, she made a mistake in here video…IP addresses ARE recorded and I’ve never tried to hide that fact. She states several times that I say I do not record IP’s when it is even shown in the screencast in the video (skip to 14:55 to see what I’m talking about.

On ALL pages where the textbox to enter your secrettweet is present, it is stated directly below that box “Only your ip address (for spam protection) and tweet will be collected.”

Yes, IPs ARE recorded. However, I do not do anything with them. I don’t look at them, they’re not shown to anyone else (the site is run by me alone), they’re never going to be made public. In fact, I have even considered “dumping” the IP column in the database once a week but in the end, it wouldn’t really make much of a difference.

For the record, yes, I DO use secrettweet for myself sometimes. What you’re reading could easily have been posted by me. I use the same form everyone else does. My IP is recorded just like everyone elses. I don’t want to know who posts on SecretTweet. I have tried to make secrettweet as transparent as possible via this blog.
Look at it this way: well over 2,000 people have used it since I opened the site a few months ago and nearly 1,000 individual tweets are viewed daily (that’s not actual site views — that’s viewing tweets in this fashion: http://secrettweet.com/secret.php?id=2665) and nothing has been leaked yet.

For everyone’s peace of mind, I will be working on dropping the collection of IPs and developing a new way to prevent spam as soon as I get a break from classes :) Until then, happy tweeting!

PS: Sorry for the randomness/jumpiness of this update…It’s hard to follow but it wasn’t planned and I don’t have the time or will to write something more elaborate right now haha. Have a happy and safe holiday weekend, everyone!!

Best Regards,
Kevin (@mozunk) — The secrettweet guy :)

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I noticed that, although rarely, there are some replies submitted to very early tweets. There needed to be some way to quickly view the most recent feedback submitted to the site. The replies section was added to fill that void. This has been added to the side menu on the main site (not this blog) and the unabridged version (which has become VERY, VERY popular) has also been added to the same menu.

Hope everyone is doing well!

- Kevin
(@mozunk, the SecretTweet guy)

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Because some people are still asking that all tweets, regardless of their content, be published, I’ve decided to show EVERYTHING that is and has been submitted for your viewing pleasure…or displeasure.

Allow me to explain why I started censoring in the first place:

My thoughts were the same as hers. I was getting bored with the same ole stuff over and over. I knew the readers were, too. So, the only way to fix the problem was to start censoring certain tweets that had the same content as several other tweets. We know people are heartbroken…if you have the same feelings, COMMENT and empathize on those existing tweets!

To view all ST submissions, visit the new section: SecretTweet.com: Unabridged. :roll: haha

As always, thanks, guys, for enjoying and using SecretTweet.

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UPDATED: I have decided to change the time between tweets to 10 minutes. This decision came from the comments. @b52 suggested 30 minutes and several others said there was no problem to begin with. So 10 minutes sounds like a happy medium to me. Don’t like this decision? Comment. Also, you can view the queue count and countdown till next posting here: http://secrettweet.com/the_final_countdown.php
Previously when tweets are approved, they went out in spurts (if 15 tweets were waiting on me to approve, 15 tweets went out at the same time and flooded your twitter account).

BUT NOW, if I approve 15 tweets, they will be released in increments of 25 minutes (I might shrink that — do you guys think 20 minutes is too long, too short, or just right???). It’s not my intention to flood your accounts…it’s just the way it was happening. So hopefully my new upgrade will fix this problem (and the time can be adjusted very easily so please let me know if 20 minutes is good enough)… Do note, however, that the only real way to test for errors is to actually put the code out there in the working atmosphere and see what happens. So if something acts up, let me know so I can fix it (things SHOULD be okay, though).

Thanks for sticking with SecretTweet! :)

EDIT: Check out the comments if you still have questions…

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So, to my surprise, someone asked for a SecretTweet RSS feed (of the secrets, not the blog)…it kinda blew my mind.

Anyway, here’s a listing of the SecretTweet RSS feeds:
English SecretTweet Twitter: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/14280026.rss
Spanish SecretTweet Twitter: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/14468086.rss

SecretTweet blog feeds:
Posts: http://secrettweet.com/updates/feed/

(And if you still don’t understand why it blew my mind, twitter supplies an rss feed for every twitter account at the bottom of the page. Surprise!)

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What’s new with the tags/tagcloud:
– All tags with commas in them were stripped of their commas.
– You can no longer input commas in the tag field (well, you can but they’re automatically removed).
– Some tags that mysteriously were cut off (eg: relatio for reltionship) have been fixed and merged into the full tags)
– The tagcloud in the right column is now limited to 25 tags. There is a link below the tagcloud to the full list of tags (or just view it here).
– Because the tagcloud is English only, Spanish tweets will now longer have tags inserted into the cloud (should’ve been done a long time ago but I just didn’t think about it).
– The tagcloud was only showing tags from the first 200-300 tweets submitted. It should now include the tags (top 25) for all 800+ tweets.

What else changed?
– The content ads were removed. Just annoying. I’m sorry I ever put them on here.

What’s coming soon? (How soon? I don’t know…):
– Search tweets
– Search tags

What I’d like to remind you of:
– Replies via twitter must follow this exact format or my script won’t pick it up from the twitter feed:

@secrettweet ###~ your reply here

Please note the tilde (~) and tweet number (found at the beginning of every tweet.
– You can reply anonymously by clicking on the tweet title (eg: “secret #—”) on secrettweet.com. You can also find deeper explanations on how to reply there (although I don’t see why you would need a deeper explanation).

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