It’s a big day for TwitHawk, a huge milestone has been hit, a quarter of a million tweets have been sent via the platform, and things are only picking up at a fast rate. That’s 250’000 introductions / leads generated / new friends made. In truth, this milestone could have been reached a long long time ago if it weren’t for being active in fighting SPAM and in making sure that Twitter isn’t flooded with mindless tweets, instead ensuring that both senders and recipients get benefit from the relationships formed.

For a limited time, to help celebrate this milestone all new users that sign up and use the coupon code of QUARTER will get $10 worth of credits (200 credits) free to kick start their campaigns.

In side news, this past week has seen a lot of improvements including:

• Many site performance and stability improvements which can be seen site wide, but most prominently in the account area. In some areas the speeds are more than 500% faster.
• When viewing your account, you can now see a list of tweets you have sent via TwitHawk in the past
• Coupon code on signup (for any sites that want to do a write up on TwitHawk and provide their readers with a coupon for free credits… contact info-at-twithawk.com)
• Bug fix: IE users not being able to expand rows to edit their searches / view existing search matches
• Bug fix: Many users were not receiving emails when new matches were found

A final note for non OAuth users (older accounts).

Twitter will very soon be turning off their API access to accounts that do not use OAuth (see here for more info). If you don’t know if you are using OAuth with TwitHawk or not, don’t worry, all you need to do is login to your TwitHawk account and go to each of your accounts, if you are not using OAuth the system will let you know and guide you through converting your account to use OAuth. If you don’t get any popups, then you are already using the right authentication and don’t need to do anything further.

As the site gets more and more users, the server is having to work harder and harder to keep up, and a few of the cracks that were minor before were spreading and showing themselves more often than is acceptable.

A thankyou to all those that sent through the details of the errors they were getting, and if anybody has errors in future please do send them through to help with the sites debugging.

Various improvements have been made to both the site itself, and the Twitter search and sending scripts that should improve the sites stability, but as above, if you notice any issues, please do send them through to info -at- twithawk dot com

To help you get a bit more info on the owner of the account for any given search match @Anywhere has been enabled on the site.

When viewing your matches list you can now hover your mouse over their name in the right column and you’ll get a small popup that gives you some information like their latest tweet, follow count, followers count, tweet count, bio.

This should help you to further determine if you should send a reply to that person, you can also click on the follow button if you are logged in to Twitter currently to follow them immediately.

Recently a few people have reported that they are getting duplicate emails from the system when new matches are being found.

This has now been resolved, it was only occurring for accounts that had multiple Twitter accounts assigned to their TwitHawk account.

Below is a portion of a port in which TwitHawk was named as a potential acquisition in 2010 from the following TechCrunch post:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/03/top-ten-digital-deals-2010/

Kelly Porter, an M&A expert at Woodside Capital Partners, proposes ten digital media deals he’d like to see. None of the companies mentioned in this editorial are clients of Woodside Capital Partners.

4. Twitter acquires Twithawk, TweetMeme, bizz.ly, Skout and TwitJump

Some believe Twitter should sell to a larger company, but they are missing the greater opportunity.  Twitter enjoys massive potential as a standalone company. It is reminiscent of Yahoo! in 1995—a single compelling product, lots of traffic, growth potential and buzz, and poised to dominate several markets—in this case, the markets surrounding all things realtime. These five acquisitions—although all young companies themselves—would extend Twitter in significant ways: business marketing (Twithawk); realtime news discovery and sharing (TweetMeme); realtime promotion, publishing and sharing (bizz.ly); realtime dating/connecting (Skout); and Twitter management tools (TwitJump). Twitter could organically grow these new capabilities from within, but acquiring them through M&A would be faster and would also bring new talent into the company. Most important, these markets would bring new revenues to Twitter, extend its network effects, and broaden its footprint—ultimately positioning the company more favorably for a public offering.

There’s been a few big updates recently (check the changelog), but none as big as this.

As part of a list of requests directly from Twitter, the name of the site needed to change from TwitterHawk to TwitHawk.
All accounts will continue to function as normal, and all pages at twitterhawk.com will redirect to the equivalent page on twithawk.com.

There will be a bit of a delay though in changing over the email accounts to @twithawk, so for now any emails should be sent to the @twitterhawk.com accounts (when the email changes come through, any mail to the old domain will be redirected to the new domain)i

While the internal link tracking on Twitterhawk shows you how many links have been sent out, and how many times they’ve been clicked (to give rise to your CPC), any links you shorten via Twitterhawk for your replies will now also have a few additional parameters added to them to allow you to track the campaign through your Google Analytics account

This will be in effect only for new links and when you check the box below the link field, if you want to take advantage of this new feature, you will need to replace your link with the new version

The ability to choose a timeframe you want the tweets to be found in has been removed from the search builder.
This is due to there being more confusion over the functionality than anything else, and it caused more issues than provided benefit to campaigns.
Additionally, in the near future we are planning to potentially use the time frame to help improve your searching process in a ‘behind the scenes’ manner, to ensure you and your followers get the smoothest experience.

The “link stats” tab on the account page has now been replaced with a “campaign statistics” tab, this still contains the link stats information as it did before but there is now another added feature to keep an eye on your usage.

Below is an example of the new graph showing how many tweets you have sent on any given day, even tracking retrospectively right back to when you first signed up and started using the app.

You can choose to zoom in and out to different date ranges (see top left) to see more or less detail, the bottom section highlighting the date range you are currently viewing.

It’s been a long time coming, and requested by a lot of users, and it’s finally ready for public release.

The TwitterHawk referral system.

Now you can earn free credits, simply by referring other people to sign up to the site and purchase credits. Each time someone that you referred purchases credits, you will also get 25% of the amount of credits they purchased, including any bonus credits. (the % may drop off to a lower amount later, so get in now while it’s a generous 25%!)

What’s more, it’s not a one off, each and every time your referred users purchase credits, you get the freebies!

To refer users, all you need to do is grab your referral link from http://www.twitterhawk.com/free_credits and start spreading the TwitterHawk love.