Twellow Blog

We’ve experienced some unscheduled downtime for the last several hours, but we’ve been able to restore the site. We are looking into the causes of this outage, but it appears some data has been lost from our system.

If you registered with Twellow between about midnight on January 25th and midnight on January 26th, Eastern Time, you will need to re-register. If you edited your profile during this period you will also need to re-edit your profile as these changes appear to have been lost by our system.

Our apologies for any inconvenience this might have caused.

Matthew Daines
Twellow Lead Developer

UPDATE: As of Wednesday morning at 9:30 am Eastern, Twellow is still operating as it should. Any residual errors from this outage should be mostly cleared up. If you see any problems with the service please contact us and let us know.

It’s indeed a pleasure for me to introduce the addition of Great Britain and Ireland to our Twellowhood feature. Now our users in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands can browse the map for Twitter users located in their vicinity.
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The “youngest country on Earth” is now also the newest country in the Twellowhood. New Zealand has now been added to our Twellowhood map feature, expanding our offering in addition to The United States, Canada, and Australia. You can now drill down into New Zealand from the main Twellowhood page, or link directly to it here.

Welcome aboard, New Zealand!

Matthew Daines
Twellow Lead Developer

A large number of our registered users have taken advantage of our Extended Bio feature and entered some extensive information about themselves using this option. Up until this point this info was only available if one clicked into the full user profile page. We’ve recently added a useful link to all listings for registered users with extended bios so users can quickly view extended bios.

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The great value in using Twitter is in connecting with people who share your common interests. While Twitter itself offers a list if suggested users to follow, it’s not a personalized list, and it doesn’t really include people that might share common interests with you, unless you are simply a celebrity hound who does nothing but stalk movie stars, politicians, and large corporations. At Twellow we have a better way of suggesting people to follow.

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Twellow continues to grow, and as of this writing we have 1,812 active categories in our system. This has led us to redesign our “All Twellow Categories” page to be a little more browser-friendly. We’ve broken the one giant page down into twelve pages of categories so your browser doesn’t have to deal with rendering out all these categories on one page. As more categories are added the number of pages will necessarily increase, so this is just another step in the relentless march toward improvement.

Enjoy!

Matthew Daines
Twellow Lead Developer

On Friday, October 23rd of 2009, the social media/networking news site of Mashable included a video by Adam Ostrow talking about the process of social media is important in monitoring your industry:

Chad Sweely
Twellow Support

A lot of people have asked us how to jump to a specific page within Twellow search results. It’s a popular question, so we’ve gone ahead and updated our pagination system to allow one to easily jump to the page he or she is looking for.

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As Twitter continues to grow, so do the lists of friends (or “followings”) and followers people are accumulating. We’ve had a few people run into a limit in our Twellow search that prevented people with large numbers of friends and followers from searching within those lists.

With this in mind we’ve analyzed our systems and increased the limit to 524,288. This number should cover the vast majority of our users. For those with more followers or friends than this, we’ll keep an eye on system performance to see if this limit can be increased in the future.

Happy Searching!

Matthew Daines
Twellow Lead Developer

With the capital states of the United States(District of Columbia) and Australia(Australian Capital Territory) being so difficult to find on our TwellowHood map, Lead Developer Matthew Daines has made it easier to locate these important landmarks.

On TwellowHood, when a user selects the United States or Australia, a small identifier will appear with a link to the country’s specific capital as shown below:

United States:

Australia:

With this in mind, we have also added an identifier for the state of Rhode Island on the United States, because this too is a difficult state to locate and access on the TwellowHood map.

We hope that this helps you find people that matter within these areas mentioned above.

Chad Sweely
Twellow Support