Network outage

Yesterday, at about 7pm EST, Twitter suspended most of our team accounts. SportyTweets was not given any prior notice of this, nor was it anticipated.

Over the last few months, my team and I have worked hard to make SportyTweets a trusting and dependable service for all Twitter users. It is our stance that we make Twitter better. Not only do we make Twitter better, but we also make our content partners very happy by providing them new visitors directly to their website. Our followers seem to appreciate the service as well.

SportyTweets has made every effort to simply provide quality news, and has never attempted to game the Twitter platform. All of our content is published with permission of our content partners. In fact, we constantly have to turn away new content partners wanting to be part of our network.

Know that we are reaching out to Twitter through all proper channels, and trust that our accounts should be back up in operation in due time. We look forward to getting back to work and building out the service. We prefer to do this all with Twitter’s blessings, and hopefully they agee.

Encourage Twitter to restore these accounts by sending a tweet.

Stay tuned to this blog for further updates.

SportyTweets 5 times bigger than StockTwits

Yesterday Robert Scoble posted an interview with Stocktwits founder, Howard Lindzon. Howard is an engaging man, and is very active in the tech world. He was also behind Wallstrip, among other ventures.

What stood out to me is that Howard touts that StockTwits now has 80,000 subscribers. That number seems small to me for a company which has raised $1.5M in venture capital, has been covered extremely well in the online tech community, and is well connected to the online financial world. I realize we are living in the post Ashton Kutcher race to 1M followers (now well above 2M), and that 80,000 may seem a lot smaller in those terms. But, it’s very small, isn’t it?

In contrast, SportyTweets has 375,000+ subscribers, is engaging its community of followers, working directly with content partners, has raised no venture capital, all while laying below the radar of the tech community.
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Setting up the official blog

Welcome to the new blog for SportyTweets. As the SportyTweets website and network services continues to be built out, we will try to keep you updated on our progress here. In typical SportyTweets style, we’ll also feed these updates to our company Twitter account, @SportyTweets.

Improvements and projects developed over the last month:

• improvements to our website
• follower counts listed on site
• new avatars for MLB team Twitter accounts
• a custom URL shortener, Spty.tw
• our own RSS-to-Twitter service
• identified advertising solutions
• gathered feedback from our followers

Work scheduled for this month
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