Tweetburner Blog

Database troubles

As most of you may have noticed, today, we're experiencing some troubles with our database. We're doing everything we can to get it fixed and to get everything up and running smoothly again. There are some changes being made to get the "stats" page back online. We apologize for any inconveiniance ...

Tweetburner in Bright.nl

Bright is a Dutch magazine on technology, media and entertainment and is a good read. It’s written very well and is excellent filling for anybody’s coffee table in the office or at home. Since the Twitter phenomenon is sweeping the world and The Netherlands is not kept out of the loop, ...

Tweetburner’s short url code ‘Twurl’ used in Dutch print ad

Good idea of course, to use Tweetburner's short url code 'Twurl' to monitor the attention your ad gets. Great thinking, however, when you put a Twurl in your print ad. In this way, all those 'way to long' links do not fog your message and you can get insight if your ...

Tweetburner on the thestar.com

Today we found another article where Tweetburner was mentioned. Thank you Antonia Zerbisias at thestar.com http://twurl.nl/jlzfov It’s exciting to see the name pop up in articles about the Twitter phenomenon. Needless to say the media is bitten by the Twitter-bug; it is no longer the domain of tech geeks, but it is ...

Service update I: “Your stats” page

With the current state of affairs we thought it would be a good idea to address the “Your stats” page issues, especially since we’ve been getting a lot of responses to the fact that we had to disable the page momentarily. The main reason for disabling the page is that is ...

How-to videos, by you.

The new team is settling nicely and we noticed that some people made video tutorials on how to use Tweetburner. Which is really cool and as a sign of gratitude we thought it would be nice to put some of these video tutorials in the spotlight. The first one is from ...

Tweetburner in Smashing Mag.

Tweetburner was mentioned in an atricle in Smashing Magazine written by Paul Boag. Read it here: http://twurl.nl/5jmlqk Aside from this article, Smashing Magazine is a good read for anyone who is involved with web development and design in some way. Cheers, The TweetBurner teamShareThis

People make the Difference II

In the world of social networking the diversity is pretty much the same as in the physical world. It being the target audiences or the way that the social networks are being used. So by that rational: in order to make a social service successful you need a diverse group ...

Tweetburner moved into his new home

As we’ve pointed out in one of our latest blogpost, we decided Tweetburner needed a team that is more focused on bringing it to the next level. As you might know we found a good team and after today they are in charge of Tweetburner. It’s been a wild ride. We ...

People make the Difference I

This is the very first collective post of the Tweetburner team. We hope everybody had some well-deserved R&R and is fully replenished for the New Year. 2008 Will be remembered as a year of great accomplishments. Referring, of course, to Bob and Michiel creating Tweetburner. They saw, they developed, they rocked. ...

This young bird is leaving his nest

Today is a big day for Tweetburner. We have some exciting news we want to share with you. Tweetburner started out as a pet project and is now considered a serious shortlinking service. We are more and more aware that Tweetburner is not only a useful service but also becoming part ...

Performance issues & spam abuse

In the past two weeks Tweetburner had some performance issues. We've been looking into the problem and found the cause today. Due to an update to the Ruby on Rails framework, there have been some changes to default settings. One of the new settings didn't operate in the correct way, ...

Downtime today

Just a moment ago we've experienced some downtime. We've been investigating the problem and the hostingprovider was under a DOS attack. At the moment al systems are running again and it looks everything is stable. In the coming hours we'll monitor our servers closely. Please let us know if you're experiencing ...

Reviewing last weeks updates

Almost a week ago we've implemented Tweetburner accounts and the FriendFeed integration. Shortly after launching the updates we've experienced performance issues. A lot of our users took the time to respond on Twitter and leave us feedback. We are thankful for all the feedback and we've done our best to respond ...

Launching: Tweetburner user accounts & FriendFeed!

We're happy to announce that your personal Tweetburner account and FriendFeed integration is now available! Tweetburner accounts We now provide our own accounts. This means that from now on, you will have to sign in with your Tweetburner account credentials. If you have an existing account, it will be migrated on your ...