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Cada semana me avisan de alguien que copia los tuits de otra persona sin darle crédito. A veces es un neófito en Twitter con 10 seguidores que de veras no entiende que eso está mal, otras veces son usuarios con más de 100, 000 seguidores que a sabiendas roban buenos tuits para ser retuiteados y obtener nuevos seguidores.

Muchos usuarios de Favstar pasan tiempo puliendo sus tuits y su personaje, y han logrado hacer de ello un arte. Ver robados sus tuits es frustrante en extremo, y si no saben qué hacer pueden sentirse desamparados.

Twitter no lo dice explícitamente, pero puede suprimir la cuenta de un plagiario si se sigue el procedimiento correcto. Este requiere que la persona objeto de plagio siga algunos pasos y tenga paciencia mientras la demanda sigue su curso en el sistema de Twitter.

Es importante que la persona plagiada sea la que siga el proceso. No reportes a un plagiario si no están copiando TUS twitts. En cambio, informa la persona que está siendo plagiada sobre el procedimiento que debe seguir.

Si alguien está copiando tus twitts sin darte crédito:

• Confirma que los tuits que te han copiado sean originales. Búscalos en Google: si los encuentras con fecha anterior a la de los tuyos, no son originales y olvida el asunto.
  
  
• Si los tuits son originales, pide públicamente al plagiario que cese de copiarte. Si parece un neófito en Twitter, dale el beneficio de la duda y explícale por qué no está bien
  
  
• Si persiste una vez que le has pedido que pare, notifica claramente por escrito tu caso a Twitter. Usa esta forma: https://support.twitter.com/forms/general y en el abanico de asuntos escoge “Mi asunto no está en la lista”. Explica lo que ocurre y no dejes de incluir enlaces a tus tuits originales; a las copias del plagiario; al tuit en que le pides que cese de copiarte; y a los originales y las copias aparecidos DESPUÉS del tuit en que le pediste que dejara de hacerlo. Explica que ya has buscado en Google los tuits y que son originales, y que has notificado al plagiario que deje de hacerlo y no lo ha hecho.
  
  
• Twitter tomará cierto tiempo para procesar la información. Pueden ser una o dos semanas. Si el plagiario no ha borrado los tuits, lo normal es que Twitter le advierta que cese, y te avise que lo ha hecho.
  
  
• Una vez que Twitter ha hecho una advertencia al plagiario, si este insiste, tendrás que actualizar la notificación, aclarando que no ha cesado en su proceder e incluyendo los enlaces a un tuit original tuyo y a la copia publicada por el plagiario DESPUÉS de la advertencia de Twitter.
  
  
• Twitter se tomará un tiempo para procesar esto: normalmente, unos cuantos días. En este punto, si el plagiario ha reincidido después de que Twitter le advirtiera de no hacerlo, lo más probable es que le sea suprimida la cuenta. Nunca he visto que el proceso, llegado a este punto, fracase.

Ojala nunca te asalte un plagiario y, si te ocurre, esto te sirva de guía para lidiar con ello.

Favstar now gives you the choice if you want to see NSFW tweets or not.  Visit your settings page if you’d like to see NSFW tweets, and look for the checkbox at the bottom.

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I’m cautiously optimistic that I’ve fixed the 502 Bad Gateway’s.  Please do let me know (via Twitter) if you see one over the next couple of days.

Over the last couple of weeks, Favstar has missed deleting some tweets that users have deleted on Twitter, and has sometimes missed collecting a retweet or favorite.

It’s become my top priority to get this resolved, and I’d like to share a little more detail about what’s going on, and what’s being done about it.

The way that Favstar receives information from Twitter regarding deleted tweets is via a new product from Twitter called Sitestreams. Sitestreams allow Twitter to push Favstar signals that tell Favstar when a tweet is deleted, or a tweet is retweeted.  

Until about 2 weeks ago, Favstar has been working fantastically well with very good reliability.  Over the last 2 weeks, it hasn’t been working as well as it has previously.

Unfortunately there’s a large number of working parts involved, so it’s proven difficult to track down what’s going wrong.  

I’ve been working with engineers both at Twitter, Softlayer (who host Favstar’s servers and networking infrastructure), and reviewing Favstar’s internal systems to improve logging to determine what’s going wrong.  A few links in the chain have been identified as potential failure points, and all three parties are working on improving the reliability.  I’m not certain how long it’s going to take, but I expect in the next week or two the problems will be resolved, and the service will be more reliable again.

In the mean time, if you have deleted a tweet and it remains on Favstar, feel free to DM me a link to it on Favstar and I’ll remove it for you.  Please be aware that I won’t always be able to do this immediately, but I will get to it.  

Thanks for your patience with this issue.  

Tim
@favstar

Something’s happened with Favstar not correctly deleting tweets that are deleted from Twitter.  I’ve added some instrumentation to figure out what’s going on.  

If after reading this, you delete a new tweet from Twitter, and it’s not removed from Favstar, and the ID is a bigger number than 80692683324145665, please let me know.

For tweets that don’t get correctly removed, via a DM or mention on Twitter, please send @favstar:

• a link to the tweet on Favstar, 
• let me know when you deleted it, 
• which app you used to delete it, 
• how many favs/RTs Favstar was showing when you did delete it.

Hopefully we can get this solved.

I’ve heard from a few new users that are using the Faved By and Retweeted By screens to count how many favs they’ve received, or how many times they’ve been retweeted.  

These pages don’t work for that purpose.

The Faved By and Retweeted By screens only consider your 100 most recent faved/retweeted tweets.  This means the numbers shown on these pages will fluctuate. 

Example: your 100th most recent tweet (from last week) got 100 favs.  You tweet again and receive 1 fav, and your 100th tweet becomes number 101.  Those 100 favs will disappear from the Faved By page, to be replaced with the 1 new one.

The pages are design simply to give you an idea of who is faving your tweets the most, and who is retweeting them - not to represent total favs and retweets.

Next week Favstar is going to start promoting users with the Bonus Features a little more.  It’s going to be kept subtle, so that users with Bonus Features are shown in appropriate places.  They won’t be flashing with neon lights on the top of the home page, but will appear in a couple of spots.

I surveyed some of the users with the Bonus Features earlier, and 95% said they were looking forward to this, and 5% said they’d rather not be shown.  We want to respect the desires of privacy for the 5%, so we’ve added a way to opt out of being promoted.

If you have the bonus features, and you don’t want to be shown, please visit your settings page, and un-check the ‘Promote Me’ box and save your settings. 

An Example

One of the first places users will be shown is on the Bonus Features page itself.  An example of what this may look like when users visit this page is shown below.

I’m excited to be introducing more benefits for users that have supported Favstar and purchased the Bonus Features in the near future. 

If you have any feedback on this, please DM @favstar or email support@favstar.fm

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Lolled.

Thought I’d 1-up @hotdogsladies with the whole joke about nothing.