For more information on what is to come with the Developers Community check out here.

http://tweetglide.com/dev

Thanks

Mike Filsaime

Interesting point on Twitter users spamming with their ads. I like the idea of encouraging your customers to have non promotional tweets. However, customers will do what they want, they want to sell their stuff, and that is the best way they know (hard sells, etc.). In my opinion in order to realized a stream of non-promo ads, there must be some guidelines, and oversight/enforcement (example here). I could be wrong, but that likely goes outside your plans for the product. But will be necessary for non-promo tweets to be more than an encouragement.

Re: website owners, “Now they can engage in conversation the right way and keep the twitter stream clean with great content.” That is a high goal, I hope you achieve, but the reality is, if you make it clear all day long, website owners still want to promote…that is their ‘ad’ mindset.

Your API sounds interesting, I’m interested to see how people will use the API in value-add ways. Feel free to respond with any examples you may have.

Thanks for stopping by and ‘listening’. You are an example to many who are seeking to make it online.

What I meant was nobody is making money with *it* (as in Tweetdeck). Truly how many of us can make money with any software running. How we use it, yes, we can add value, etc. as you state. Software, like what Mike is providing is not commonplace. Time will tell just how commonplace it becomes.

Others?

Would have to disagree with no one making any money with TweetDeck (Twitter) though. Simply provide value, be interesting and link to your blog/website. If people (especially in the Marketing arena) were not making money with Twitter or other social media tools we would not have so many people using it. Or providing ‘books/courses and tools’ to make more money with it…

All that said, these are just my opinions. Mike is very good at what he does I’ve purchased his products before and I’m sure is a good guy, no criticism of him personally intended at all. In fact, he just retweeted this site so good on him.

Like you say, interested in what others have to say as well. I’ll butt out now

The face book button opens a facebook STREAM only if you go into settings tab and then click on general settings and login with your Facebook credentials.

The button does not work b/c you did not set up your facebook credentials. I will have a note say that when you click it and have not set that up yet.

The Iphone app will be ready Before Christmas. It will be free and have no ads. A page will explain more on the site.

Here is the biggest thing that is missing by many. And I need to make it more clear.

“ANYONE can shut off the ads. Seeing adds are optional. When you shut them off, you simply do not earn credits. And not it is a ad free tool.

Tweetglide feels we have a BETTER solution for websites owners. Many of them are just SPAMMING all of us with their ads. Tweetglide encourage non promotional tweets. We feel (like GOOGLE) that sponsored advertisements have their place. if you choose to see them, we allow you to have your own add shown to thousands. If not, shut the ads off.

Most website owners are always tweeting about their sites. Now they can engage in conversation the right way and keep the twitter stream clean with great content. Remember that ads are only for those that want to see them.

In the end TweetGlide encourages more organic less spammy tweets and puts ads in an appropriate “Sponsored Tweets” column where they belong. (Like Google does.)

And we will have an open API developers community coming soon as well. More at the site for that. So many people will be developing cool stuff for users.

To the Website owner. Please feel free to use any of the information here to update your post.

Have a good day everyone and happy tweeting.

That said, it can be a very compelling business model. As I said, this is not for the corporate or casual user. Nearly every product Mike puts out has an MLM spin to it. If you don’t mind having ads in your fact (which you’ll likely be conditioned to ignore…for the most part), this can be a great option, and maybe make money (for affiliates).

Yeah, no doubt TweetDeck is a more refined app, but nobody using it makes money with *it*. The reason TweetGlide will be successful is for the monetization users anticipate, either as an affiliate, or by advertising offers.

As for the second upsell at $47, all things being fair, it is for half the amount of ads and such, so not just a straight up discount.

Thanks for taking time to chime in.

Others? What say you?

1. Why would I want to see a whole lot of ads in my twitter stream/client? I do not see them with TweetDeck or other Twitter clients. I could perhaps forgive this if I could move the column but we do not have this option. Its easy finding IM products without having them in my face.

2. Thought it a little tricky having the system send two Tweets on my behalf about TweetGlide. I installed it a second time on another computer and did see this little tick box option but very subtle. I have plenty of followers not interested in this kind of marketing or app and was not happy about this, but Mike is excellent (a tad aggressive) with Viral marketing so no surprise really.

3. Feel that this app reeks of an MLM type program and takes away from the ‘genuine’ publishing aspect of Twitter. I can see new users sending heaps of nonsense Tweets just to earn credits. I could be wrong but I think this will reduce the value of info provided and account for a lot of UnFollows.

Perhaps I am simply not getting it just yet. I will keep following the TwitterGlide conversation (via TweetDeck) and see if I get any useful comments/uses rather than all the random generated ones with affiliate links.

Oh yeah if you refuse the first upsell option you get the same deal with a second upsell at $47 I bet that’s going to annoy those people who pay $97 and find out later. But still all the affiliates are not going to advertise that fact are they?