May 2010
4 posts
We’re testing a solution to our downtime problems. It appears to be working so far, so your TwitStamps should be working great!
May 14th
Sorry about the downtime recently, especially the last two days. We’re having major server outages, and we’re diagnosing now.
May 13th
We have resolved the issue of avatars not displaying on the “Latest” TwitStamps. Sorry about the issues!
May 10th
Caching times are back to normal, your stamps should be updating faster now.
May 10th
1 note
February 2010
2 posts
We’re back, sorry about the downtime. The server had a hard time handling a lot of concurrent traffic.
Feb 15th
Our server is having some issues right now, sorry for the downtime! We’re fixing it right now.
Feb 15th
October 2009
1 post
Six new themes released: shinygreen, shinyblue, minishinygreen, minishinyblue, sleek, & grunge (inspired by @silencebetrayed). Check em out!
Oct 11th
September 2009
1 post
We fixed a small problem causing TwitCards to display nothing under “Friends” and “Followers”. All cards should be updated now.
Sep 28th
August 2009
5 posts
Please check your spam mail before emailing us about registration issues. Some email providers still mark our email as spam, accidentally.
Aug 16th
The data center that hosts the TwitStamp VPS is currently experiencing some issues. We hope to have this problem rectified soon.
Aug 8th
1 note
A few types of avatars still weren’t rendering as of last night, all should be fixed now. Server just needed a package update.
Aug 5th
Avatars are fixed and all should render properly. Working out a couple other misc bugs. All should be working, please alert us otherwise! :)
Aug 4th
We’ve finally discovered the JPEG avatar issue and we’re working on pushing a fix live tonight.
Aug 4th
June 2009
3 posts
TwitStamp 3.0
As you may have heard, we’re working on the third major revision of TwitStamp. Internally known as TwitStamp 3.0, it is a total revamp of the site. It also adds a slew of new features, both on the frontend and the backend, including the much-awaited custom TwitStamp generation. We’ve even included some mysterious blurry screenshots for you to ponder over. You can see the newly...
Jun 15th
We’re transferring the twitstamp.com domain off GoDaddy. Nothing should go wrong… but if you can’t access the site… that’s probably why.
Jun 8th
1 note
Twitter PHP Autofollow/Unfollow Script →
I’ve decided to expose the source to the code we use to auto-follow and auto-unfollow users on Twitter. It uses the SimpleXML library to parse XML, so make sure you have PHP5. The code linked above is the bit we use for this purpose, which I extracted into a standalone file for your use. Remember to set your username and password at the top of the file, and also remember each action uses...
Jun 6th
May 2009
6 posts
We’ve rewritten the autofollow script to be more efficient along with adding auto unfollow. All previous followers have been unfollowed.
May 30th
Twitter had a few minutes of downtime; we flushed the TwitStamp cache so if your card had a “Could Not Connect” error it should be resolved.
May 27th
2 notes
Some reported connection issues, our server isn’t reporting any downtime and it’s up here… so we’re assuming Twitter API failwhale. Sorry!
May 19th
Internet Explorer and TwitStamp
They’re not exactly best friends! There are some minor CSS issues that became present when we rolled the code over to a new server several months ago. While we could tweak the CSS for hours until the positioning is corrected, we opted to let it go until the launch of the next version (which is fully cross-browser compatible, by the way.) You may have noticed the winter brought a lot of...
May 18th
On Generating TwitStamps
If you could care less about what kind of technology powers TwitStamp, be sure to check back soon for a sneak peek at the next version! At the moment of writing, the generation engine behind the scenes at TwitStamp runs 1964 lines of code, including the templates for all the themes. Not bad at all, but that can certainly be improved. That’s a task to be completed before the launch of the...
May 16th
Some are reporting errors with TwitStamp. It’s up for us right now, but we’ll keep an eye on it. Please @reply us if you encounter anything.
May 6th
April 2009
2 posts
Launched a Tumblr for non-critical/development-related/etc posts about TwitStamp. http://twitstamp.tumblr.com/
Apr 11th
Welcome to the TwitStamp Tumblr
Here we’ll be detailing some greater-than-140-characters tidbits all about TwitStamp. You’ll find more detailed information about problems reported on Twitter, creative uses of TwitStamps around the net, and posts on the development of TwitStamp. Currently in the works are a post on the inner workings of our image generation and a look at the upcoming release of TwitStamp v3.
Apr 11th