Buffer: A minimalist web app for people who like to tweet a lot

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This does look useful - I'm pretty sure we'll start using in the next week as we're launching our own site (http://www.solvingtrafficcongestion.com) and will be needing to tweet on a regular basis. Buffer looks like it will become one of our marketing tools.

I like it. Although the login process failed on me several times.

Thanks. I really need to improve the sign up process. Can you let me know what went wrong? It'd be very helpful.

There were some problems with the authorization process with twitter and I had to refresh the page several times before it took me back to the application's main page. Also, it's a little confusing when you ask for email and password before sending the user to twitter to be authenticated. Usually people do it the other way around by authenticating the user first and then asking for other credentials once the user is already on the application's main page.

Thanks for the feedback, that's very useful. I think I will try and tweak it so that you're sent to Twitter first before I ask for an email and password. The reason I do that is that you can have multiple accounts, and each Twitter account can have multiple collaborators, so I need to keep Twitter accounts distinct from user accounts. I can, however, reverse the setup and as you say I think that would be less confusing. You're not the first to mention problems with the authorisation process - I will look into that. Thanks again.

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