@Anywhere now used on campaign pages

To help you get a bit more info on the owner of the account for any given search match @Anywhere has been enabled on the site.

When viewing your matches list you can now hover your mouse over their name in the right column and you’ll get a small popup that gives you some information like their latest tweet, follow count, followers count, tweet count, bio.

This should help you to further determine if you should send a reply to that person, you can also click on the follow button if you are logged in to Twitter currently to follow them immediately.

TwitHawk named in TechCrunch in Top Ten Digital M&A Deals For 2010

Below is a portion of a port in which TwitHawk was named as a potential acquisition in 2010 from the following TechCrunch post:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/03/top-ten-digital-deals-2010/

Kelly Porter, an M&A expert at Woodside Capital Partners, proposes ten digital media deals he’d like to see. None of the companies mentioned in this editorial are clients of Woodside Capital Partners.

4. Twitter acquires Twithawk, TweetMeme, bizz.ly, Skout and TwitJump

Some believe Twitter should sell to a larger company, but they are missing the greater opportunity. Twitter enjoys massive potential as a standalone company. It is reminiscent of Yahoo! in 1995—a single compelling product, lots of traffic, growth potential and buzz, and poised to dominate several markets—in this case, the markets surrounding all things realtime. These five acquisitions—although all young companies themselves—would extend Twitter in significant ways: business marketing (Twithawk); realtime news discovery and sharing (TweetMeme); realtime promotion, publishing and sharing (bizz.ly); realtime dating/connecting (Skout); and Twitter management tools (TwitJump). Twitter could organically grow these new capabilities from within, but acquiring them through M&A would be faster and would also bring new talent into the company. Most important, these markets would bring new revenues to Twitter, extend its network effects, and broaden its footprint—ultimately positioning the company more favorably for a public offering.

TwitterHawk name changed to TwitHawk

There’s been a few big updates recently (check the changelog), but none as big as this.

As part of a list of requests directly from Twitter, the name of the site needed to change from TwitterHawk to TwitHawk.
All accounts will continue to function as normal, and all pages at twitterhawk.com will redirect to the equivalent page on twithawk.com.

There will be a bit of a delay though in changing over the email accounts to @twithawk, so for now any emails should be sent to the @twitterhawk.com accounts (when the email changes come through, any mail to the old domain will be redirected to the new domain)i

TwitterHawk now integrates with Google Analytics

While the internal link tracking on Twitterhawk shows you how many links have been sent out, and how many times they’ve been clicked (to give rise to your CPC), any links you shorten via Twitterhawk for your replies will now also have a few additional parameters added to them to allow you to track the campaign through your Google Analytics account

This will be in effect only for new links and when you check the box below the link field, if you want to take advantage of this new feature, you will need to replace your link with the new version

Search builder updated

The ability to choose a timeframe you want the tweets to be found in has been removed from the search builder.
This is due to there being more confusion over the functionality than anything else, and it caused more issues than provided benefit to campaigns.
Additionally, in the near future we are planning to potentially use the time frame to help improve your searching process in a ‘behind the scenes’ manner, to ensure you and your followers get the smoothest experience.

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TwitterHawk referral system released

It’s been a long time coming, and requested by a lot of users, and it’s finally ready for public release.

The TwitterHawk referral system.

Now you can earn free credits, simply by referring other people to sign up to the site and purchase credits. Each time someone that you referred purchases credits, you will also get 25% of the amount of credits they purchased, including any bonus credits. (the % may drop off to a lower amount later, so get in now while it’s a generous 25%!)

What’s more, it’s not a one off, each and every time your referred users purchase credits, you get the freebies!

To refer users, all you need to do is grab your referral link from http://www.twitterhawk.com/free_credits and start spreading the TwitterHawk love.

TwitterHawk now uses oAuth

A lot of people have requested this in the past, and it’s finally here.

oAuth twitter authentication, no more passwords requried.

All new accounts created will be created using oAuth, and all existing users will be pushed over to oAuth when they attempt to view their account details or update their TwitterHawk Noise Ratio (which as a side note, is also fixed up now).

So if you haven’t already, I urge you to update each of your accounts to use oAuth, just head to your dashboard and click through to your account. When you do, you’ll get a popup requesting that you connect via twitter, when you click on the button you will be taken to Twitter to authenticate you (please make sure that you login with the correct account at Twitter). When you come back, you’ll jump straight back into your account page. It’s that easy.

NB Which ever account you login with when you are directed to Twitter, that is the account that will be updated / created at Twitterhawk.

Scheduled maintenance July 26.

TwitterHawk will be down for a 1 hour window for maintenance, on Sunday, July 26th 2009 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM PT

To see when this maintenance window will occur in a different timezone please click here: http://mediatemple.net/go/date/0907261800

Twitpocalypse bug fixed - Duplicate search results

A remnant bug from the twitpocalypse has been found in the TwitterHawk system that was the cause of a lot of people mentioning that they were getting duplicate results for their searches, even when they removed them they seemed to be reappearing.

This issue has now been resolved, although the effects may still be felt for a day or two as the existing matches are replied to or removed.

Apologies for any inconveniences caused.

TwitterHawk is now open to suggestions on UserVoice.com

http://twitterhawk.uservoice.com/

A lot of the feedback for the site has in the past been through Twitter or direct via email, which is great, but since the suggestions are often quite similar it makes perfect sense to open up the suggestions for everyone to see and vote for which is deemed more important.

Thankfully, Uservoice.com provides a service that allows us to do this.

To checkout the current suggestions, vote for the suggestions, or make your own suggestions, head on over to http://twitterhawk.uservoice.com/

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