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Review my Startup: SendTweet.com

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Send an automatic tweet to everyone that opts into your email list.

Thought about doing something like this before, but I'd rather not give our competitors a public list of all our customers.

Good point!

I agree, It's not for everyone.

My thoughts are, your competitors can already scrape your Twitter followers. It's a legitimate concern, but you also can't live in fear of your competitors.

Absolutely, but a real-time indicator of our customers is not something I want to hand over to them.

I see this as a valid point, but I also feel nowadays companies should engage users with twitter to help build relationships and loyalty. Just got to keep customers happy and keep delivering them value so they stay loyal. This could be a good tool to help do that.

There are more cross channel promotions on social media now that people are liking and tweeting brands. Social media is becoming more valuable and companies are looking for new ways to engage. But I agree, there needs to be respect for the customer to build the relationship over social channels.

Just because you can use incredibly large text (with an incredibly large header that covers the text even on a 1080p monitor!) and scroll-detect animations doesn't mean you should.

Regardless, from a business perspective, this seems like a very good way to annoy your customers instead of engaging them.

I agree, the idea isn't bad but the Powerpoint style js animation effects are really distracting to the text and purpose. Get rid of those, and the huge text, and you'll do yourself a favour.

Ya I agree.. Will split test the animations. Seems like a lot of the feedback so far is related to this.

Creepy to have someone tweet me when I didn't give you my twitter. Creepier when a mistake is made. Might want to convert mails to twitters for inside analytics or spotting influential users though, but dislike providing extra services with mail addresses of my users. Creepy.

You bring up a good point. I don't think our service is right for every business but there a certain businesses that it can work for. I like the analytics idea.

(I like this a lot, but) you describe your "technology" as both revolutionary and proprietary, and operating "automagically."

While I'm sure there's something neat going on under the hood, legitimate users probably don't care about the technological marvels you're pulling off and just that it does what it says on the tin.

A lot of the current copy is self-congratulatory. The technology likely isn't starting revolutions, so describing it as such is puffery.

The copy def needs a lot of work. Will hire a professional.

Please remove the scroll animations...

Seconded. The scroll animations are a bit excessive.

Will split the animations.. Good point

Agree. I like to scan through the whole page before deciding whether to read it or not. The animation deters me from reading it.

Single page sites with scrolling animations and large fonts seem to be all the rage right now. I'm on the fence - this can work, but I agree, it's already become a 2013 web-design cliche.

Those video testimonials...are they real, or Fiverr jobs?

I immediately smelled Fiverr as well.

I definitely see the value in this service, what do you think is the best way to use it though? tweet them a thank you? a promotion?

There are a lot of ways to use the service. Sending them a promo coupon works very well, or thanking them for their subscription, sending them a PDF with more info about your service, etc..

Looks like something marketers/companies could definitely use to test engagement. Nice solution, good luck with it.

It's worth testing to see how how your customers respond. If you provide value in the Tweet I think they would like it. Just remember to respect their privacy.

What if people don't want companies outing their mailing list activity?

Ya.. This is a controversial business and you bring up a good point. I think that we need to remind our users of this point. Ultimately, the customer won't go back to the business - so they need to use our service responsibly.

Thought you'd like to know that your site is unusable on iPhone.

Ya we are getting the mobile site up this week..

wonderful idea, i cant wait to start using the service! tim -modelhuman guitar duo, new orleans

Great idea!

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