Comments on: Twitter Username Management Script (TUMS)

By: Ryan Bessling

Ryan Bessling — Fri, 22 May 2009 10:33:41 +0000

Steve,

My friend Ian told me about your script.
I came to your blog but I can’t find the link to download the script.

Can you tell me where or how I can get the script?

Can you delete my other post?
I just woke up!

Thank you,
Ryan

By: Chase

Chase — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:03:31 +0000

Thanks for your response.

1. Arghh….. bet you have it down to under 20 seconds an account…..

2. Have you found ebay/amazon affiliate links work well? Have any conversation statistics to share (such as tweeted URL actually clicked)?

By: Steve Poland

Steve Poland — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:39:42 +0000

Chase,
1) This doesn’t automate creation of accounts; I don’t know of any other way except manually.
2) Possible rev opportunities — using an eBay Partner Network account or Amazon Associates account [or Commission Junction or LinkShare] and tweeting out relevant products/services for sale, depending on the focus of your twitter account. [i.e. For a NY Yankees account, you could tweet out links to memorabilia on ebay, movies on amazon, etc] and earn a commission from ebay, amazon, etc.

By: Chase

Chase — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:31:07 +0000

Will probably purchase this script shortly. Question:

1. Don’t imagine the scripts automate twitter account creation? Do you know of an efficient way to create dozens of new twitter accounts without having to do it manually on twitter.com?

2. Any ideas on revenue oppty’s associated with using these scripts?

Thanks.

By: Steve Poland

Steve Poland — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:59:05 +0000

Once everything is installed you’ll want to go to http:///admin
Log in with the username and password that you created in the last step.

To import users you can use phpMyAdmin though the system was designed
to import a csv file with all of the needed information. Here is the
format that the csv file should be in.

search name,username,password,image_directory,profile_image,profile_background_image,location,Name,more
info url,One Line
Bio,profile_background_color,profile_text_color,profile_link_color,profile_sidebar_fill_color,profile_sidebar_border_color,RSS1,RSS2,RSS3

To import your csv file you can click on Import at the top and upload
that file. There is one last step and that’s updating twitter with
your user’s information. You will want to do this even if you added
the accounts by hand. Just click on Update User info at the top of the
admin section, then click on All or New Accounts. The script keeps
track of changes you made when importing a newer version of the csv
file so we don’t have to hit twitter any more than we have to.

Everything after this is automatic. The rss feeds should start to
store (if I remember correctly it will do that right after you add a
user) and tweets will start to post.

By: BD

BD — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:38:43 +0000

Very cool script. What is the vision to generate revenue from the script’s functionality?