We’ve also:

• Improved the “Tweet This” button performance on the Share Queue page (but we still plan on making it even faster)
• Updated the History – Stats page to show more detail about Twitter

We’re especially excited about this because search engines more than ever are factoring what they call ‘social signals’ heavier and heavier in their algorithms. This means that having your bookmark URLs tweeted hundreds of times will push your sites up in the rankings, faster than ever before, shooting past your competition, while driving hordes of fresh traffic.

Here’s how it all works:

‘Free’ Members

1. First you need to head to the Setup Wizard.  Here you’ll create a new Twitter account (if need be) and authorize SocialAdr to access your Twitter account.
2. Next, go to the Share Queue.  You should notice new buttons on each bookmark (they may take a few seconds to load).  By clicking these new buttons you’ll see a popover box like so: If the “Default” tweet message is ok, simply click “Submit”, otherwise feel free to type your own “Custom” message.  Keep in mind the bookmark URL will be auto-appended to the end of your message so you’ll only have about 110 or so characters for your message.  We’re using TinyURLs to shorten any long URLs in order to conserve as much space as possible for the tweet message.  You’re currently able to send a maximum of 5 tweets per day.
3. Now you can head to the History – Tweets Sent page to view all the tweets you’ve sent.  You can see the URL you tweeted about, the SocialAdr user who owned the bookmark, a link to the actual tweet on Twitter.com, how many credits you received, and the timestamp of when it happened.

All Members

1. The number of credits that are earned/deducted for each tweet is calculated based on the # of Twitter followers the account has.
   • ((ln(followers+50)^2)/3)-4
   • Example:  a ‘Free’ member has a Twitter account with 2035 followers. Each tweet that they send will earn them 15.5 * 0.2 = 3.1 credits.  The 0.2 multiplier is consistent with how social bookmarking submission credits are calculated.  The member who owns the bookmark will be deducted 15.5 credits, regardless of which account type they have.
2. On the Add Bookmark page you’ll see a new “Microblog Message” section that allows you to customize the default tweet message for each of your bookmarks.  The default message is simply the bookmark Title.The user who actually posts the tweet to their Twitter account can still choose to write their own custom message, but at least, as the bookmark owner, you can set a custom message that we believe most users will choose to use.  And good news, spin tags {|} are accepted!
3. You can view the history of any tweets you’ve received on the History – Tweets Received page. You’re shown the URL that was tweeted about, the SocialAdr user who sent the tweet, a link to the actual tweet on Twitter.com, how many credits it cost, and the timestamp of when it happened.  Notice that the first row cost 15 credits, because “kane” must have had between 1,000 and 10,000 followers.  The second row cost 5 credits, because “jaspert” must have had between 100 and 1,000 followers.

What if I don’t want users tweeting my bookmarks?

No problem at all, you can opt-out here.

(this latest release is SocialAdr v2.50)

• My Bookmarks
• Shared bookmarks processing engine
• Share Queue
• Quick Share
• Share Queue widget on Dashboard
• Daily email job
• Daily credit giver job for ‘Lazy’ users
• History – My Bookmarks
• History – Stats
• Setup Wizard – All social bookmarking account pages
• Setup Wizard – Add Bookmark
• Setup Wizard – Share

Hopefully you’ll notice improved response times throughout the site.  If you notice any bugs,  as usual please let us know.

• Link Builder – from 40 to 75
• Link Addict – from 80 to 150
• Linkaholic – from 160 to 300

If you have bookmarks that were previously archived, you can go to the Bookmark Archive page, and click this new button:

…to move them back into the Share Queue.

This change is for SocialAdr v2.27.

Here’s everything that was modified:

• Delicious <-> Yahoo OAuth integration is complete.  Everyone using their Yahoo account to sign into Delicious can now set it up.   I’m pretty sure I gained a few gray hairs working on this
• The social bookmarking service Bookmark4You now has a hyperlink to the user pages on the History – My Bookmarks and History – Shared Bookmarks pages
• Bug fixed on Share Queue and Quick Share pages which was setting a limit of 10 “I prefer not to share this” bookmarks.  Users who had clicked the button more than 10 times would still see the additional bookmarks.
• Setup Wizard enhanced so the flow was more sequential…Share and then Add Bookmark
• New registration pages added for the WSO
  

To bring that more into line with how we’d like things to work, we’re going to actually tune up the ratio of shares received vs shares given.  Some of you that have been around since the beginning may recognize this as a leap backwards – we used to offer share return ratios greater than one on some account types.

One element of tuning down that goes along with this change is that we will be reducing the number of potential shares per day for all account types to 5.  The biggest motivating factor here is to keep things at a level that the bookmarking sites won’t consider spam.  20 shares per day is an awful lot, especially if they are happening every day on a number of accounts.

By tuning down the number of available shares per day, but tuning up the return on each share for our customers with higher accounts, we’ll be able to play a little more nicely with the social bookmarking sites while simultaneously delivering more value to our customers.

A side effect of these changes should be an increase in the size of everyone’s share queues.  Since you will be going through fewer shares per day, you won’t have as easy a time exhausting the available share queue.

In part 3 I’ll be addressing some important changes to our free account.

We’re faced with a pretty basic challenge though, which is that our most active users are the ones most likely to be pumping new links into the system.  On top of that, our free users can only have a couple of links going at a time, and can only have them shared twice.  Those two items plus a couple of others makes for a difficult situation.

So how do we address this?  There are a number of directions we’re going to tackle this from, and in combination we’re confident they will eliminate any issue.

First, in the tuning UP department, we’re going to be increasing the number of links that people can have in the system, especially our free users.  And secondly, we’ll be tuning up the number of times that each user’s links can be shared.

These two items will result in more links being available to share, both because there are more going into the system in the first place and also because they will stick around longer once they get there.

But that’s just the beginning.  There are even more changes coming in the ‘tuning down’ department.  I’ll explore some of those in Part 2.

• Redesigned history system, optimized for performance and growth
• Updated Share Queue (performance)
• Updated History pages (performance)
• Updated Dashboard (performance)
• Updated History – My Bookmarks logic (wasn’t showing complete details)
• Updated History – Shared Bookmarks logic (hyperlinks now go directly to external bookmarks)
• Added ability for social bookmarking services to be either temporarily inactivated or fully disabled
• Updated Bloglines interface (to handle changes on their end)
• Updated Simpy interface (better error reporting)
• Updated Multiply interface (to handle changes on their end)
• Updated Edit Accounts (fixed issue with duplicate accounts appearing)