* Even if you’re not sure whether you’re going to use it long term or not, I recommend downloading it now, getting your referral link, and talking about it (with your referral link). Why? Because the people who start getting referrals first are the one who’ll build huge downlines and get tons of free advertising. The longer you wait, the less potential you have for building a downline.

* I paid to upgrade. One of the main reasons I see for paying is because your ads will be twice as big and much more eye-catching. I have no stats to prove whether or how much more effective that’ll make them, but it seems like a no-brainer that they’ll do much better. Whether you think it’ll be worth the 1-time investment is up to you.

(Disclosure — the link above is my referral link. If you use it and download the app, you’ll be in my downline, and if you pay for an upgrade, I’ll earn a commission).

“* Fixed: Not loading content pages with titles in the ads glide.”

If I’m reading that correctly, it sounds like this issue has been fixed already. The “phantom” hits coming into my site appear to have stopped to. Kudos for the quick response.

I like tweetglide and telling everyone who’ll listen about it. I appreciate you taking the time to find out what the culprit was and also for Mike addressing your concerns.

Thanks for being a watch dog.

If your read the last two comments, you’d see that this was a side effect of a design flaw, and that they’ve said they’re going to fix it.

If the exit boxes you’re referring to are the JavaScript alerts, I agree that those are an annoying waste of time since it’s impossible to leave the page without clicking to dismiss them.

Personally, I don’t have a problem with exit hover ads, which are just HTML content displayed within the page, which doesn’t prevent you from leaving. They’re an effective tool to grab attention and deliver a small, focused message and increase conversions without forcing people to jump through hoops.

“This is caused by the fact that when someone hovers the link in your ad the application loads the page title for the page the ad links to. We are working to find a solution for this.”

When I first saw that, I wasn’t too sure whether to believe it, because there was still the question of why I was getting over a thousand hits when my ads had only shown a few times.

But from Mike’s response above, it looks like one ad credit puts your ad in the ads feed once, which potentially gets it viewed by a bunch of people.

I imagine the reason for doing it that way would be so that the ads can be loaded from Amazon S3 rather than putting a potentially huge load on Mike’s servers. That makes complete sense.

Perhaps the answer then is to have the TweetGlide server load the page to get the title once each time the ad is placed in the feed (in case it has changed since the last time), and then output the title in the feed so that the client app doesn’t have to load the page to get it.

Looks like I’ve got to “print a retraction.” Apparently it’s a design flaw with unintended side effects.

I am not sure what could be doing that. But I think it maybe coming from the page that shows the add. It is an RSS page (if I even know what I am talking about.)

http://tweet-glide.s3.amazonaws.com/tweet.rss

Now, if that page is somehow crawled or something by our site or something else that sends a ping to your site, I will find out for sure and post it here (or my Tech guys will.) I am on it now.

I can promise you this, it is not TG trying to show “Traffic” to its members. You want traffic that CONVERTS not traffic, The last thing we want to be known for is junk Traffic.

Before any conspiracy theory emerges LOL, please let me get back to you on that ASAP ;)

Thanks

Mike Filsime