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You can now vote either thumbs up or thumbs down on the comments.

Just look for these buttons:

Get started! >> http://secrettweet.com

Another new feature coming soon is the ability to hide/remove retweets from the comments.

Is there something you’d like to see added to secrettweet? Send an email to community@secrettweet.com or comment on this entry :)

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I’m blowing the dust off the blog. There hasn’t been a post containing an actual update or news in over FOUR months. Insane, I know. The good news is that there have actually been updates, I just didn’t have the will to write about them haha. So here’s what’s up:

– You can submit your secret straight from you phone! I’ve actually had the feature ready for nearly a year and have been neglecting to make it public. So far, the response has been pretty good. Click here for details.

– See what the most popular tweets are for the current day. The Top 8 are listed at the top of every page. It still baffles me why some receive as many views as they do.

– Artistic? Good news! You can attach artwork (even something as simple are your secret in writing) to your secrettweet submission. This feature is VERY new (released only a day or two ago). I’m excited to see the response. To add your artwork, go about submitting your secret as usual. You’ll notice there’s now a neat little add artwork button. Make use of it :)

– SecretTweet’s on Facebook. If you want to become a fan of SecretTweet on Facebook, go here (click). I might feel the need to give away some free stuff to random Facebook fans one day…who knows? ;)

– The moderators got a new view. It’s much cleaner and runs MUCH more efficiently. Want to help moderate? Go to http://secrettweet.com/admin/signup.php. There are still a few bugs left to be worked out, but the core functions very nicely.

– On a geek note, the core code/functions of SecretTweet.com received a much needed makeover. As time goes by, new features are added, features are removed, features are improved upon, Twitter’s API changes — several things happen to the code. I recently took nearly three weeks off from publishing secrets to rework the core of the site and improve what needed to be improved. I have one major feature that will increase the speed of the site three fold (yes, 3x faster than what it runs at now). I’m working on removing a few kinks in the code before making it public. I expect to have this ready in another month or so. Once it’s released, the site should load almost instantaneously and the load on the database will be cut significantly.

– Another feature that’s in the works was actually suggested by one of you guys — daily email summaries of tweets. I understand that even though tweets are released from @SecretTweet once an hour and only during specific hours of the day, @SecretTweet can still flood your twitter stream. You’ll soon be able to subscribe to receive a daily email of tweets and comment summaries. Should be handy for those of you that like a clean twitter feed.

– And SecretTweet is still broke. I’m still spending my time working on it LOL. Support the site and me by visiting often and exploring what the advertisers have to offer. If you enjoy the site, buy me a beer.

Have a feature you’d like to see added? Having problems with the site? Have hate mail? Send it all to community@secrettweet.com.

Thanks for being active in SecretTweet, guys. I hope you’ve enjoyed using the site as much as I’ve enjoyed building it ;)

Regards,
Kevin S.
@mozunk

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Hi there!

A note on the new design
As promised a few weeks ago, a new design has been released. Yeah, there are a few bugs that have yet to be worked out and I’m working as fast as possible to get those fixed (I have a life outside of SecretTweet, ya know LOL). Regardless, if you notice a bug or anything that you think is wrong, leave a comment on this post with a brief description of what’s wrong — I can’t fix things unless I’m aware of the problem.

So what’s new?

• – The site should meet most of Section 509 guideliens (http://www.section508.gov/) that would prevent anyone from reading the site. This is something I’m striving to implement site-wide. If you’re disabled and you or your software have a problem reading SecretTweet, send an email to community@secrettweet.com. I’ll fix whatever is wrong.
• – The old CAPTCHA has been trashed and a new one using the reCAPTCHA service is currently in use. It’s a tad bit harder to read but I have no problem using it. No more CAPTCHA errors! (Should’ve done this a long time ago)
• – The tagging system that everyone seemed to ignore (for some reason) has been ditched and a new, simple search has been added to the bottom right of the site. As with the design itself, it’s new, but I don’t think there are any bugs that will prevent it from functioning perfectly. If the search becomes a popular tool, I’ll beef it up and add a few bells and whistles.

Changes regarding how tweets are handled
A change to how secrets are handled is starting Saturday, May 9. The unabridged section and @SecretTweet3 will be publishing a lot fewer tweets while the moderated version (the version you see on SecretTweet.com and @SecretTweet) will be publishing a lot more tweets. I’m considering ditching the unabridged section and @SecretTweet3 all together and just publishing the most popular tweets to @SecretTweet. What do you guys think?

SecretTweet on Facebook and MySpace
I’ve refrained from putting SecretTweet on platforms other than Twitter. I recently created groups on Facebook and MySpace, though. You can join the Facebook group here and you can join the MySpace group here.

I welcome your opinion on the new changes and I also welcome any ideas to improve SecreTweet that you may have. You can comment on this post, JOIN THE FORUM ;), or email community@secrettweet.com.

Best Regards,
@mozunk
Kevin Smith

PS: Happy Mother’s Day to you moms out there :) :)

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I understand that, for one reason or another, some users don’t want to have others comment on their SecretTweet submissions. So now, when you submit a secret, you can disable comments by checking the box right above the submit button. When you do this, users will see “The submitter of this SecretTweet indicated that he/she doesn’t want comments/replies to be shown for this specific SecretTweet.” instead of the comment form. Also, public replies will not be shown.

Also be sure to keep sending me feedback for features you want to see or problems you have stumbled across. It’s much appreciated! :)

Regards,
@mozunk
Kevin Smith
SecretTweet Guy

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I’ve adjusted the way to have your public replies to @SecretTweet be indexed. There’s no more need for the tilde (~).

New format is just “@secrettweet number reply”.

Send a tweet with the following format:
“@secrettweet ****** your reply here.”
Reply to @secrettweet with the tweet number followed by your reply. The tweet number is published at the beginning of EVERY tweet (starting 4/15/08).
If you follow this format correctly, your tweet will show up in the replies for the corresponding tweet (it may take up to 15 minutes to be picked up by the SecretTweet bot, though).

Here’s an example of the proper way. If you look at Secret 21801, you’ll notice the reply shows there. You can also reply anonymously by clicking the “View Comments” link under each tweet.

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For those of you who are in the habit of using the old format, don’t worry, I’ll continue to support the indexing of those replies as well. This newer format just save one character and it’s less confusing.

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I added RSS feeds for EVERY tweet’s comments. So, if you’re like me and an RSS freak, you can subscribe to a tweet’s comment feed. There’s a logo () at the bottom of every tweet now. Example:

Enjoy!
Here are some other SecretTweet RSS feeds:
http://feedproxy.google.com/SecrettweetcomNews (Feed for this blog)
http://secrettweet.com/updates/index.php/?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments (Feed for the comments on this blog)
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/14280026.rss (@SecretTweet)
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/15759407.rss (@SecretTweet3)

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You can now comment on the unabridged submissions. It works exactly like commenting on the approved submissions. Bring any problems you encounter to my attention.

Enjoy!

Regards,
@mozunk

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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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@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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