Topic: FeedZeBirds.com - Bitcoin Twitter Ad Platform [ANN] - page 3. (Read 8510 times)

I would suggest you do not include such functionality, especially if you want to stand by your claims of weeding out spambots and the like. How do you verify all the twitter accounts that re-tweet all the campaigns? Do you plan on verifying them and then paying out to their account? Is it a manual process? If your service is successful, how much time can be put into such a process? I'm sure it's possible to do all of that work, but it doesn't seem worth it to me. I think those people who are curious enough will look into the service to collect their reward first. But that's just my opinion.

yes, he's wrong! Possibility to detect retweet directly from the twitter would be awesome, it will make retweeting more spontaneous.

Hi Peter,

Our plan is to enable it to be retweeted from within Twitter itself (or and 3rd party twitter app), but right now you have to use FeedZeBirds.com.

Ira (the developer) and I are currently in an epic discussion over how useful this feature is to users. I really want to make it available ASAP, but Ira is skeptical that it adds much. So can you tell him why he's wrong? =)

I think there might be a problem with the payout. I appear to be getting paid more than I should. Can you verify if this is the case?

Everything appears to be correct now, thank you!

Lightrider,

Thanks for your feedback.

First, I'd like to address the total you've been paid out, vs. a total of all of your retweets. Our records show that you've earned 0.2389563btc as of the time of this post. The amount you reported as sent to your address is still correct: 0.2179593btc. I checked the log and it looks like a couple of your feedings were rejected for a bogus reason. This was a bug that was fixed a few days ago, and I thought I'd cleared all of the blocked transactions, but it seems I missed yours. I cleared them, and will go back through to see if anyone else is still being affected.

As for the discrepancies between total earned and earnings, it should now be fixed, along with the credited feedings pagination issue. The 0.0909315 was actually the total for whichever page it thought you were on. Anyway, let me know if these numbers still don't match!

Cheers

One more bug I've noticed: Clicking Page 1 and Page 2 on my Credited Feedings page displays the exact same content.

Feature request: Can I flag a campaign as undesirable, and block it temporarily from the list of available campaigns that I see (not affecting the visibility of other users)? It would become automatically unblocked if the CPM changed. It would also be a nice feature for advertisers to see how many users have blocked which campaigns. Might be a lot to code, but I think it would be useful for a variety of reasons.

Also, would be nice to remove campaigns I've already RT'd from the main page so that I only see new ones.

Thanks for the responses and the interesting service!

Then why is Total Earned significantly different than Earnings, which is also significantly different than what has been paid to my address?

Total Earned: 0.0909315
Earnings: 0.2389563
[EDIT]Sent to Address: 0.2179593

Total Earned = All the btc paid to you in the lifetime of your account
Earnings = Same as above (maybe we should make the term the same)

Minimum payout is 0.01 btc... so if you tweet 1btc of ads, and then another one for .005, the amount sent to your address would only be 1btc, with the rest held until you pass the .01 threshold again.

Keep the questions coming if you have them =)

Can you explain the discrepancy between "Total Earned", "Earnings" and the amount that has been sent to my address?

Ira of BTCinch and I were Featured on The Bitcoin Show 052 yesterday to discuss FeedZeBirds, Kim Kardashian, and Nigeria:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuLAhZsFc1A

At this point, we're not going to assume what price will motivate retweets... but certainly a higher CPM will get your ad distributed faster and (perhaps) to higher quality viewers (because the more spammy accounts will retweet anything, but more authentic accounts will be more selective).

We do have little counter on the Create Campaign page which tells you what CPM number is needed to get your ad on the front page. The ads are ordered by CPM, so prominence will be given to the better CPMs.

When the site's been running a while we'll collect some data and offer some cool statistical info for advertisers.

Hi Slush,

Yeah, the boilerplate is too long currently and we plan to shorten it a bit as we progress. It is a bit long right now as we're using it partly to educate people about the tweets as they see them. When the userbase grows, we'll be able to shorten it.

As you say, users should only tweet those messages that their followers won't mind. Any user who spams his followers will not be able to spam them for long... because they'll leave.

Btw is there any "recommended minimal price" for 1000 retweets? I have no idea what price can motivate some people to retweet some of my ad. Some stats or at least recommendation would be good, like Google ads are providing :-).

evoorhees, firstly I stopped reading after second paragraph with a feeling like "oh, yet another tool for spammers". Then I had a discussion on the conference and one of my friend explained me the basic idea (exactly what's on the end on your initial post ;-) ) and I changed my mind. Yes, this is really pretty cool, I especially like that self-balancing mechanism which prevents retweeters to spam bullshits, because otherwise people will stop following them.

I'm not interested in FZB because of profit, but I think I'll still retweet something if I'll see that information useful, because I feel that Bitcoin community is lacking some information about new services. I personally didn't know about a lot of cool projects before the conference (and my misunderstanding of the FZB idea is pretty good example).

Just one "feature request". Can you remove that "#Retweet4Bitcoin #FeedZeBirds ChkStatus@ FeedZeBirds.com/l86gh" on the end of every message? Or maybe leave just a "#FeedZeBirds". Not only because long text is cutting message length a lot, but I feel people can be much more critical about that particular retweet when they'll feel that it is "for profit". It can hurt not only the retweeter, but even the message credibility itself. For now I'll probably just pick the interesting tweets and will post them by myself.

Haha, indeed. Free as in free speech usually, but I'll take the free beer as well.

I tried out this service and found that it worked great, it was easy to get started and to get the re-tweets working. The only thing I haven't tested yet is the payout system which I will try later on when I have managed to add up enough to cash out. To bad that there's only a hand full of messages that you can re-tweet

Well thanks, but with a name like yours of course you have to like FeedZeBirds

Very cool, will be recommending to people.