Twitter Improvements
29 Sep 2008 9:33pm GMT For those of you using FeedBlitz and Twitter, we've made a few key changes to the way we handle Twitter - and it's become simpler to sign up and easier to manage once you do. As one of the first services to integrate Twitter into our capabilities, we now have a lot of experience to apply to this particular mashup.For starters, where there used to be two different versions of Twitter on the subscription form, there's now just one, called simply "Twitter." This option sends tweets to you using...
Sep 24 - very slow today...
24 Sep 2008 3:13pm GMT ... but catching up. Don't send an on demand mailing for a post that should have gone out today as it will be sent autoamtically.update - all done!
Early morning service interruptions 9/18
18 Sep 2008 12:23pm GMT We had some infrastructure issues overnight that has delayed mailings and made the site unresponsive; it's now been fixed and mailings are going out as fast as we can push them.
FeedBlitz Publisher Survey
19 Aug 2008 8:29pm GMT Just a quick FYI that we're running a one-time survey and profile update of FeedBlitz publishers. There's a simple form to complete to update basic biographical data (all covered by our privacy policy of course), along with the chance for you to tell us more about what you want to see added or changed in the service. The results are confidential and, once the form has been filled, it goes away to its happy place and won't bother you again.
New Feature: Newsletters from Protected Wordpress Blogs
15 Aug 2008 8:29pm GMT Good news for wordpress.com users who want to offer email newsletter (and IM and Twitter) subscriptions to their protected blogs. FeedBlitz can now access the RSS feed for protected WordPress blogs, provided that you give FeedBlitz a valid user name and password, of course.FeedBlitz has long supported what's called HTTP authentication for password-protected RSS feeds, and this works well for sites that use it (TypePad password protected blogs, for example, can be accessed this way). But this...