SecretTweet - Post your secrets to Twitter anonymously.

I think a lot of people are confused as to how SecretTweet works on the backend (most users have no problem understanding that facts that it’s anonymous and posts to twitter, though).

So here’s what happens:
1-User submits secret via secrettweet.com form.
2-I or my Spanish translator friend/guy receive an email that looks something like this:

3-Obviously, I, or my Spanish helper, click the “Approve” link to allow SecretTweet to them post the tweet to the twitter API and update it’s status in the secrettweet.com database to approved (I use the terminology safe–this might answer your question as to what does safe mean from this previous screenshot of the actual database)
4-If I don’t click approve, the tweet is still stored in the database but is never set for public viewing.

So if you’re wondering why your curious tweet of “Is this thing woking??!?!?!” or your silly tweet of “Fuck yo couch!” never saw the light of day (of the pages of twitter/secrettweet), this is why. My approval system keeps the junk out (most of it..but that’s a different post).

If you ever submit something that you feel should have been approved but wasn’t after a day or so, feel free to submit it again. I’ll get the hint that you feel it is important and I’ll approve it. Everyone deserves to share something and I respect that (this might also answer your question, “Well why do I still see things that aren’t techinically secrets coming through secrettweet?”)

Thanks for reading,
-@mozunk (Kevin)
The SecretTweet.com Guy

EDIT: One more thing I forgot to mention: Sometimes people submit secrets when twitter is down/having problems. Until recently, my approval system included no way of telling whether or not a tweet was succesful in posting to twitter. So if twitter was down when I clicked approve, it was never posted to twitter (but was posted on secrettweet.com)….so sorry to those whose secrettweets were lost in the shuffle of things.

EDIT 2: Happy Memorial Day — be safe :)

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