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

bump for the birds!

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/feedzebirds-flies-again-reactivated-and-online-62155

Back up!

http://feedzebirds.com/

Hopefully 120 or more characters per message

They already said that they fixed the twitter problem, just implmenting new features to the site/platform. Hopefully up sooner than later.

Twitter regards FZB as violating its TOS. I don't think they'll be allowed to continue in this form and shape.

Site is still Offline , When will it become online.

Damn just found out about this... Was hoping it'd be working since I have 1.3K followers...how much would I make from that? o_O
Also when is it going to be un-suspended?

Site is down

Hopefully you guys will get back online soon!!!!

Oof, just saw your service is suspended. 

All the more reason to make your messages look less spammy. 

I think your userbase will grow if you shorten it.  I am not using it because I think all of the tweets look like spam.  You will get at least one more user

Paid upgrade to shorten it

Liking the additional view options. Keep up the good work!

Today, during our #CES Blitzkrieg, FeedZeBirds surpassed the 7,000,000 all-time feedings mark. In marketing terms, this means over 7m exposures have been completed through this marketing platform.

Over 300 Bitcoins have been paid out to retweeters since we launched in November, and just today 700,000 feedings occurred, the strongest day ever!

We still have one more day of the #CES Blitzkrieg, see details here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/operation-blitzkrieg-feedzebirds-swarms-ces-57648
Do what you can to help promote Bit-pay on the floor of CES! Over 150,000 attendees.

Thanks for the support and feedback everyone!
FeedZeBirds.com

It's back again 

Site appears to be down. Everything alright?

I've retweeted all the possible tweets.

would be nice to have the option for each campaign to select how many times an individual user can retweet, and how often.

also I sent an e-mail about problems viewing the site from a smart phone. Recently I had the same issue when browsing from my laptop when the browser window was not wide enough.  My user control panel would show up on the bottom left and 80% was not viewable and could not be scrolled to.

Thank you for addressing the issue and refunding the account. Looking forward to more successful campaigns with your service.

LightRider,

This happened because you had previously stopped the campaign, and been refunded for it. Once a campaign is stopped (as opposed to paused), it can't be restarted. That being said, the fact that you sent more to that campaign's address brings up an interesting situation that I hadn't considered. I'll think about the best way to handle this in the future, but for now, the best I can do is refund the amount you sent after the campaign was stopped. This is roughly 2 bitcents, which I just sent to your payment address.

Until I work out a solution to this state machine, please don't send any more money to stopped campaigns. Not sure if we'll switch to allowing stopped campaigns to be restarted, but it will take some time to fix.

-Ira

I agree, we need a Facebook solution!

I am not trying to troll, I am concerned about signing up for your service.  Bruce, in addition to being convicted of fraud, recommended a website which stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from customers.

Do you have any association with Bruce beyond your appearance on his show?
Why would you choose to go on Bruce's show when he has such an ugly reputation?  If you are willing to promote yourselves with criminals' endorsements to make more money, why should customers not think you won't follow other advice from criminals and steal from them?

There probably is a workaround to allow FeedZeBirds itself to work with FB. If it is successful, maybe Google will adopt Bitcoin micropayments for all its advertising.

That sounds like a good idea. There are other services trying to do this without bitcoin. Bitcoin seems like a good fit.
I think there may be some legal issues with these services, however.

I have paid into FeedZeBirds.com/f4i7z but it does not offer the option to "Play" or refund.

Feedzebirds is terrific.  It is projects like these that lead me to think the decline from $33 to $3 is just a blip in the growth of bitcoin.

Now how about a similar service for people who "like" or "recommend" on Facebook?

A known username of his posted tips on finding a nice young underage prostitue in Thailand, and how much to pay.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3413928&pagenumber=442#post394978815

I am more concerned about Feed Ze Birds connection to someone with a history of fraud.

If you look at his history, he's trolling many threads. Ignore and move along.

That's a very serious accusation and criminal if unfounded. Can you prove any charges for this horrendous allegation? Where is a link? Do you have any evidence for an indictment or are you a just another SA troll? Maybe you know something. Are you pimping children for talk show hosts? Hmm? Time to bounce dude.

best website ever. 

You can also review FeedZeBirds here: http://www.thebitcoinlist.com/listing/feedzebirds/ 

Hi all,

Can I make a quick request - if you've tried out FeedZeBirds and it's been a pleasant experience, can you leave a quick rating here?

http://www.thebitcoinreview.com/site.php?site_id=792

It'll help us get more exposure, thanks!

Testing it out.  Paying for some tweets that should earn some bitcoins for me.  I'll have to play with it some more.  Its getting late.

Thanks for addressing my issue. PM incoming.

LightRider,

Unfortunately, these tweets were rejected because Twitter thinks your url (j.mp/rwlMbo) is 20 characters long, putting it over the limit. I wrote some logic into the character counter on the Create Campaign page to recognize URLs, but I didn't account for .mp domains. :/

Obviously, I need to do a little more work on the URL recognition system. In the meanwhile, we have two options. If we can shorten your campaign messages by 7 characters, Twitter will accept them, and we can send out the approved tweets that have been being rejected. Otherwise, we can refund you for the campaigns. Please PM me your preference, Lightrider.

Until I make the URL recognition more robust, please only use URLs with ".com", ".org", ".edu", ".net", ".uk", ".us", ".net", ".mil", ".gov", ".le", ".be", ".co", ".it", ".in", ".im", ".eu", ".ca", ".cz", ".de", ".jp", ".fr", ".au", ".ru", ".ch", ".nl", ".se", ".no", ".es", ".ly" and ".mp" (just added) top level domains.

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Added support for: ".aero", ".biz", ".jobs", ".coop", ".info", ".mobi", ".name", ".museum", ".pro", ".at", ".be", ".ph", ".pl"
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So I have created two campaigns that both show a number of RT's, but I cannot find any evidence of them having been RT'd in any twitter searches. I can find all my previous campaigns through similar searches, but not these particular two. Any idea what's going on?

http://feedzebirds.com/p06cg

http://feedzebirds.com/f4i7z

You mean so that sponsors only pay for retweets in a certain area?

It would be useful for some sponsors, for sure, but practical implementation is extremely difficult. A) it makes the site much more complicated and B) it's hard/impossible to screen users based on their REAL location. Also, what if a user wants to retweet for multiple regions that are relevant, etc.

Basically, the more we look into that, the more it convolutes things, and much of the attraction of FeedZeBirds is the simplicity and speed of the system. We ARE making other languages, however. Japanese is our first - Twitter is big in Japan... and soon Bitcoin will be too muahahahaha

I think retweeting only after you have made an account is a nice feature.  Allows it to be more organically viral.

Any plans to restrict payment to a certain area? (ex. US only, california only)

Ah, did not realize that was the issue. Well, as the website experience improves, then the need to not use it should diminish. Still waiting on the blocking feature I mentioned earlier. Glad to see you continue working on this really interesting service.

To be able to retweet from within Twitter, the user would still need to have signed up with FeedZeBirds.com. The point is that once they've signed up, they don't have to go back to the site to retweet.

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.

Very interesting. I think I'll try it out.

BTW, I found a typo at http://www.feedzebirds.com/bitcoin:


I believe you're missing a "V".

I really like what you are doing there keep it up! 

That's not a bad suggestion, we'll consider if it would be reasonable to implement. Thank you for the idea.



Not at all. There is a big difference between a legitimate Twitter user who sends periodic sponsored tweets to his followers, and a "spam" account that has fake followers.  We screen the latter group out.

How and when a legitimate user sends a retweet is up to him - and if he does it too often, or with completely irrelevant ads, he's likely to lose his followers, so there's a nice feedback mechanism to keep people from going crazy. If this mechanism is not sufficient, we may implement a limit of retweets per day (2 or 5 or 10 or something).

Our business model fails if spam accounts get through and become widespread - so we keep a close on that.

Huh?
Isn't your entire business model built around twitter accounts spamming ads?

All pretty except the part about funds owed to spam accounts being donated.
Give it back to advertisers, that's how real advertising agencies do it. The fact that the advertiser didn't get what he paid for, yet you keep his money to donate to someone else is fishy as hell.

Ad platform and awesome way to get paid for 1 second worth of work.

Announcing the love child of Twitter + Bitcoin...  FeedZeBirds!

[OPEN BETA]  -  FeedZeBirds.com

FeedZeBirds is an advertising platform which leverages the instant payments afforded by Bitcoin and the social media networking power of Twitter.

Using your already-existing Twitter account, you simply log in (no new account needed), and retweet any of the available sponsored messages. The site automatically calculates your followers and the sponsor's CPM budget and pays you Bitcoins instantly. 

Truly revolutionary advertising made possible only by Bitcoin.

- Works anywhere in the world
- No personal or financial info needed
- Instant, automated payments
- Payout to your Bitcoin address or your email address[/li][/list]

- Users have full control - never an automated tweet you don't approve of
- Advertisers have full control - set a budget and the price you'll pay per 1,000 Twitter followers who see your ad (CPM)[/li][/list]


Advertisers - this is a great new way to get your message out and pay solely in Bitcoin. It's fast, you set your own CPM figures, and then users can choose to retweet your message if the reward is worth it for them.

Spam accounts are blocked and reported to Twitter - any funds owed to spam accounts will instead be donated to charity (or maybe the Bitcoin Dev Team =)

We also have a mechanism to enable donations for a campaign, so charities or community groups can fund a message - supporters can donate at any time to keep the campaign running.

The site is fully-functional, but we expect some bugs in this open beta. Please let us know what you find, and also if you find anything confusing we need to know! We intend this to help advocate Bitcoin to the masses beyond Bitcoin-land. Sponsored Tweets is a growing industry (see SponsoredTweets.com) - Kim Kardashian makes five figures on every tweet (a good sign of society's demise, to be sure). Maybe we'll see if she wants to join us.

Get started here: FeedZeBirds.com
Follow @FeedZeBirds

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