February 2009
4 posts
What about buy links?
As lastfmlovetweet has grown, I have been considering adding buy links to the end of the tweets. These links would point to the loved track’s album on Amazon.com and an affiliate account would be embedded into the link.
In thinking about the best way to go about this I have come up with a number of ideas that I would like to share and hopefully get some feedback on or generate some...
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Import your loved tracks into tumblr (or just...
*** UPDATE 3/27/09 After some experimentation, I am not happy with either a pipes solution or using a feed of twitter search results (described below). The best solution, I think, would be to use the tumblr API to generate the posts. That would allow me to include pictures, or other media to make the tumblr posts more than just tweets in tumblr. Any ideas are welcome, but this one may take some...
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Where are my tweets?
Every now and again, I get a tweet asking if lastfmlovetweet is working, or why don’t I see my loved tracks? Here are some things you can check:
1. Is lastfmlovetweet down? The easiest way to check is view the search results from twitter. They will show you the most recent lastfmlovetweets, and are usually updating every few minutes.
2. Are your loves tracks being recorded on lastfm? ...
Growing Pains
Over the last few weeks lastfmlovetweet has gone through some growing pains. Here is a summary of what happened, and what changed:
I. Uh Oh
I was on vacation with my family, and got home to find out that my web hosting provider decided I was abusing my account by running my little lastfmlovetweet ruby script every 10 minutes.
He had a point - let me explain: Each run of the lastfm_love ruby...