Fun.ly Blog

Fun.ly Cash Auto Feeds back online!

Fun.ly Development Team — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:52:55 +0000

Fun.ly Cash Auto Feeds are back online! After working out some things with Twitter we are pleased to announce that our new feed system is again up and running. You may need to re-authorize your Twitter account and/or re-enroll in feeds but then you should have the ability to approve them for posting and send them out. Thanks for using Fun.ly Cash!

Fun.ly Cash is back online!

Fun.ly Development Team — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:53:36 +0000

We are happy to report that Fun.ly Cash is back online and all systems are “GO” at Fun.ly. It has been a frustrating week to say the least and we’d like to thank everyone for their supportive comments. As Fun.ly has grown, there have been some learning experiences but with each one comes knowledge to use going forward to prevent these types of things from happening in the future. It is not easy when the partner you’re trying to work with seems to be constantly working against you, but we will prevail! Maybe now we can get back to making the site better for all of you. Don’t forget to give us your feedback on bugs and feature requests by clicking the red “bug” icon in the upper right corner of the screen or the support link in Auto Twitter.

Thanks for using Fun.ly and Auto Twitter

Some sad news about Auto Feeds

Fun.ly Development Team — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:55:39 +0000

Some sad news about Auto Feeds

While we work to restore the functionality to the Fun.ly Cash site (Auto Twitter is already back online) we have some unfortunate news to report. It turns out that we are not able to automate the posting of any links to Twitter accounts if sponsored links (like Fun.ly Cash links) are being used. The posts have to be manually approved, otherwise we are in violation of Twitter’s Automation Rules

The UI for the features will continue to persist as we still plan to turn this into a feature that you can use, it will just be more manual (but will comply with the rules). Thank you for your patience through this frustrating time. We have been patient as well, waiting for Twitter support to respond to our problems since December 8th and they still have not. We have had to figure out a work-around in the mean time which is why Auto Twitter is back up but Fun.ly Cash is not. As always, we will continue to keep you up to date on the state of affairs in our neck of the woods. Thank you for using Fun.ly.

We’re back in business!

Fun.ly Staff — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:06:00 +0000

Auto Twitter is now working as normal. You will have to re-authorize your account with the new plugin (version 1.62). Fun.ly Cash users please note: Functionality will be back to normal tomorrow. Just another bump in the road, and we’ve managed to prevail yet again! Thanks to those that have supported us in testing and troubleshooting.

Ciao!

Just another update…

Fun.ly Development Team — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:12:05 +0000

Another update for everyone regarding our service. We found out late last night that the root of the problem is Twitter banned our server from accessing the API. This was allowing you all to at least continue posting from your own blogs but any posting or authorization from our servers was denied. This is likely in response to our auto-feed system which we have disabled and will have to discontinue in order to become compliant with the Twitter Terms of Service. In our efforts to fix the problem last night, we also inadvertently stopped your blogs from updating to Twitter (because we requested an updated API key).

The solution is as simple as a re-authorization, however, we have been unsuccessful at getting ANY response from Twitter as far as un-blocking our authorization server. I feel confident that once the lines of communication with Twitter are opened we will be able to resolve this matter quickly. Please be assured that we are doing everything in our power to fix the problem as quickly as possible.

Auto Twitter Error Update: December 13th

Fun.ly Staff — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:20:24 +0000

We are still trying to get twitter’s attention regarding the update. They finally got back to us 5 days later, but simply to ask “Is the problem still happening?”. We are doing our best to get to the bottom of this, as it stands it doesn’t look like there’s anything in our code that is causing this, it appears to be on twitter’s end. Please stay tuned for updates, and again, our apologies.

All those who e-mailed (hundreds) will be notified as soon as we’ve gotten to the bottom of this.

Thank you for your understanding and support.

Auto Twitter error message while authorizing

Fun.ly Staff — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:22:26 +0000

Users have been reporting the following error message when attempting to authorize Auto Twitter:

Error message #1002:The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.

We’re working diligently to address the issue. We will post an update as soon as everything is fixed. Sorry about the inconvenience!

Auto Twitter v1.6 Released early

Fun.ly Development Team — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:06:01 +0000

Hello everyone. You may have noticed that Auto Twitter stopped working yesterday afternoon. For some reason, Twitter changed our Application’s API key for accessing your accounts and Auto Twitter stopped working. As a result we have had to release a partially completed v1.6 with the new API key so everything will start working again. You WILL need to reauthorize your account.

On a related note, it appears that WordPress Plug-in updates are currently having having issues related to WordPress so you may need to refresh your screen a few times if it tells you that the Plug-in files are not available. Auto Twitter v1.7 will be released in the next week or so which will allow you import your accounts from Fun.ly Cash so stay tuned.

New Beta Features: Connect Facebook & Twitter, Fun.ly Cash Chat

Fun.ly Staff — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:51:28 +0000

We wanted to let our beta users know that you can now connect Fun.ly Cash to both your Facebook AND Twitter accounts. What does this mean? It means you can now automatically send any shortened Fun.ly Cash link straight to your Facebook Wall or your twitter feed quickly and easily from your Dashboard! It’s never been easier to start earning cash for your clicks with Fun.ly Cash. We recommend starting out by posting headlines from Digg, Reddit, Fark.com, CNN, and other news sites. All you need to do is create a unique comment about the article, paste the URL and click “publish”, and it will be posted to as many facebook and twitter accounts as you can connect- There is no limit to the amount of accounts you can connect to your dashboard.
FUN.LY CASH CHAT

We’ve also created a new chat room for everyone to discuss Fun.ly Cash, including methods of promotion, ways to get extra traffic and clicks, and whatever else we feel like. Please keep this area family friendly. You can now access Fun.ly Cash Chat from your Dashboard. We already have a few users who have entered the discussion as early as last night.

SUMMARY

Log in to your Dashboard and connect your Facebook and Twitter accounts right now, and start pushing out unique links to your FB friends and twitter accounts. Also make sure to drop by Fun.ly Cash Chat which can be accessed from your Fun.ly Cash Dashboard. Here’s to a profitable Halloween!

Fun.ly Cash Beta Update: 10/21/2010

Fun.ly Staff — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:51:56 +0000

Hello to all our new beta testers! We wanted to keep you up to speed on what’s currently happening with Fun.ly Cash.

Updates

The first thing we’d like you to know is that by the end of the week, you will start to see your revenue totals on the dashboard. We’re just ironing out the last few kinks, and soon you should see exactly what you’re earning per click on your statistics page.

Revenue Sharing

A lot of users have been asking what their revenue is based on, so I’ll go into a little more detail for those of you who are curious. We will display a banner ad at the top of any links you generate with Fun.ly Cash. These advertisers pay us per click (or per CPA), and we pay out 60/40 in your favor per impression. So if the daily intake is $100, 60% of that will go to our Fun.ly Cash users, only you will get paid for your share of the total unique fun.ly clicks (impressions) generated. A lot of our advertisers will be paying us on a CPA (Cost Per Action) basis, meaning they are paying us a commission for whatever sales are generated by clicks to their ads. This is good news for Fun.ly Cash users, as the potential for profit is much higher than traditional paid-per-click networks.

Changes are coming

In the coming weeks, we will be implementing some awesome new features such as the ability to share links on all of your social networking accounts right from your Fun.ly Cash dashboard, and then eventually using our wordpress plugin. We’re also brainstorming ideas to help spread the word, and coming up with unique strategies to help each one of our users market their links in a more effective manner.

Self-serve advertising

We’re in the alpha stages of a self-serve advertising platform, which will allow anyone to advertise on our system on a pay-per-click basis. This will be a great way for everyone to get the word out about their new product, service or event. Stay tuned for updates on this!

We’re all ears

We’d love to hear from any of our beta testers regarding the system (how it’s working out for you, things you’d like to see changed, new ideas, so on and so forth) so don’t forget you can send us an e-mail to funlycash@gmail.com or click on the “bug” icon in the upper right-hand section of the Fun.ly Cash Dashboard.

Have a great day and here’s to growing our businesses together!