June 2010
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Twitter API Meetups Recap
On Wednesday, developers working on the Twitter API met in Boston and Toronto to meet and discuss their apps and the ecosystem. This represents the first of many meetups organized based on local interest in connecting with other Twitter API developers.
While the two groups didn’t get a chance to communicate with each other during their events, reports from both showed great benefits all...
Drive more users to your app with Widgets!
Proud of your rating and reviews of oneforty? Looking to have more of your users review your app? With our new widget for your app on oneforty, you can easily accomplish both.
What’s it look like?
Here’s an example of our widget, which you’ll find on the Alerts Grader site (look in the bottom right). It shows your rating on oneforty as well as the number of reviews. It also...
May 2010
6 posts
Meetups Everywhere & Annotations Hackfest
Meetups Everywhere: Twitter API
Twitter is changing the way we communicate worldwide. App developers like you are building great apps regardless of your proximity to Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco. Chirp was an awesome way to bring together all the app developers around the world, but what about the other 363 days a year? The answer: Meetups Everywhere.
Just announced at...
Tips from oneforty: How to Market Your Twitter App
Twitter is an exciting platform to build an app on. This has led to thousands of apps being developed to add value to Twitter users. But with all these apps, how do you make yours stand out? Since we get asked this a lot, we thought we’d share what we’re finding other app developers are doing that’s working for them.
1) Complete your app profile on oneforty
Ok, you knew we had...
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Introducing: oneforty subscription payments.
We’ve been hard at work here at oneforty to create a platform that allows Twitter users to find, rate and share your great apps and now we’re helping you sell them. In January, we brought you the ability to sell on our site with one time payments. Now, we’re enabling you to quickly and painlessly set up subscription payments.
So What’s Cool About Selling on oneforty?
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developer discussion: Subscriptions & Payments
Last Wednesday, we had a conference call with a few of you to get some feedback on the subscriptions service we’re launching and learn what you’re most interested in having the service provide.
Here are some of the key talking points:
How do you plan to monetize your app? If you’re selling it, what are you using to do so?
Do you want to have tiers/multiple levels of pricing?...
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oneforty discussion: Subscriptions
Greetings. For those who haven’t met me yet, my name is Jason and I’m the new customer development manager at oneforty. One of my responsibilities is developer relations and so I’m reaching out to you all to discuss a new feature coming to oneforty: subscription billing for developers selling their apps on oneforty. Our goal at oneforty is to best serve and enable the Twitter...
Subscriptions Preview
It has been a long time coming but we are finally gearing up to launch our initial subscription billing platform. I wanted to take a few minutes to give you a quick preview of what to expect and hopefully get some feedback.
Before we get into it, if you are not familiar with our current one-time billing offering, you may want to take a moment to check out our Seller’s Guide and Fulfillment...
April 2010
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Reflections on Chirp
oneforty traveled to San Francisco last week to attend Chirp, the first official Twitter developers conference. The overarching takeaway that struck all of us was that the Twitter ecosystem is entering a new era, and it will bring changes both to Twitter and its developer community. Twitter has grown a lot over the past year, not only in users but also in personnel and infrastructure. The company...
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The Unofficial @Chirp Live-Blog
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The Manifest Destiny of Twitter Applications
In the aftermath of Twitter’s acquisition of Tweetie and rollout of a Blackberry app, there’s certainly been a lot of concern brewing. Much of it warranted.
While our guess is good as anyone’s…
Here’s what we know:
At oneforty, we’ve cataloged 2665 Twitter apps to date. More interestingly, we’re tracking over 12,000 new source tags from the garden...
March 2010
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Twitter Developers at SXSW
While at SXSW last week, we got a chance to chat with developers working on a wide range of Twitter apps. In between brews, panels, and tech karaoke (!), we heard several pain points of building on the Twitter API platform brought up over and over again:
Expanded search history / full timeline
There are a lot of developers building interesting apps mining the data streaming through Twitter....
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Howdy Developers, Get Found on oneforty
At oneforty, we want developers’ apps to be found by the users who want them. While we are continually working on new and interesting ways for apps to be found, shared, reviewed, and used, sometimes developers don’t do everything they can to make it easy for our users to find their apps.
So, developers, here’s some best practices to get your application found:
Claim your...
January 2010
2 posts
Sell Your Twitter Apps on oneforty!
At nine o’clock this morning, we launched our ecommerce platform for developers. Simplifying the selling process is one of the ways we are striving to meet the needs of developers, and I wanted to take some time to highlight the benefits of selling on oneforty as a Twitter app publisher.
First and foremost: you can make money, and you can do it easily. Most developers want to spend their...
Badges: A Marketing Tool for Your App
If you’re an app developer on oneforty, the most helpful thing you can do for your app is encourage your users to leave reviews. This lets your fans persuade others to try your app, and it tells us that people are using it and liking it. As Mike explained in November, a good chunk of your app’s ranking is based on what users say about it.
To assist you in this effort, we’ve...
December 2009
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A Few Good Devs
oneforty is looking for a few good developers to join our e-commerce pilot. Developers in the pilot group will have the opportunity to be the first to kick the tires on our new e-commerce engine and will have significant input into the initial phase of our e-commerce product launch.
Our goal is to select a handful of developers who represent a wide swath of the Twitter application universe. ...
November 2009
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New Hotness: App Donations
We’re thrilled to bring back donations to the oneforty marketplace! We’ve worked hard to make the donation process super-easy for people to help support their favorite apps, and for developers to collect money for their creations.
You can make a donation to an app developer via oneforty with any major credit card or a PayPal account. Developers: all you need to receive donations is...
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This Week in Reviews, Spam, and Items
Hello all, just wanted to take a few minutes to give you a heads up on some new features that have popped up on oneforty this week.
Review Helpfulness
Users are now able to provide some feedback as to whether a review was helpful to them. By simply clicking yes or no for a particular review you will not only be helping to surface the best reviews but you will also be helping improve the...
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On Ranking Twitter Apps
We recently updated our algorithm for ranking Twitter applications. Our goal is to continually improve how we help people discover the most interesting and helpful Twitter apps based on platform, tags, categories, search, “essential types” and popularity. In that spirit we’ve been working to determine which apps people are truly using and what they like best.
At first blush,...