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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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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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