Change to send frequency

There’s often been confusion on just how often tweets are sent from your queued matches, so it’s been updated to something that makes a lot more sense.

Previously, your queued matches were sent out at the same rate at which your search was running. Meaning, if you were running your search every 2 hours, then one of your queued matches would be sent out every 2 hours.

Obviously this isn’t enough for most people, as the queued matches list can’t keep up and send out at a rate fast enough, as you’ll be adding more and more items to your queue over time faster than they can be sent out.

So, the new rate of sending out from the queued matches list, is a flat rate of one every 10 minutes for your each campaign you have running. So for each search that you’ve setup, up to 6 tweets per hour will be sent out from your queue.

Data cleanup

Over time, a few accounts have been abandoned, and the updates to the search script made that much more obvious as in the past 24 hours a lot of old users have received emails saying they have new matches ready for them to check out. Some of whom were excited that their seemingly stagnant account was bringing in fresh results, others a bit bemused that they were getting new results after a long quiet period.

A decision has been made to clean up the campaigns on the site, and accounts that appear to be stale have been deactivated.

Any campaigns that have not sent out a reply in the past 3 months, have been deactivated. This cleanup will happen on a daily basis to keep things running smoothly.

This doesn’t mean your whole account will be deactivated, just old stale campaigns, you can simply re-activate the campaign if you’d like to keep it running by editing it.

Server outages, and tweaks to sort it out

With more users brings more load, and as a result there’s been a few server outages recently (which we apologise for), so a few hours today was spent investigating the causes and resolutions.

Happy to say that the server is running much leaner now, and operating much more stable.

The finder script has been heavily revamped, so if you notice any bogus results, please let us know via the support site and we’ll get on to it ASAP.