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Re: Show HN: Echelon – A safe way to manage your company’s Twitter accounts

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I must admit I didn't sign up yet - just read the homepage - but something that would be super useful on such a system is throttling tweets. I've seen more than a few instances where an employee screws up or goes 'rogue' and either goes off on a rant or posts the same thing over and over. It'd be great to only allow employees to post, say, once per hour or whatever, so any problems could be contained.

Or perhaps an employee kill switch that deletes every tweet they've made in the last user-defined number of hours?

That is a great idea, thanks – will definitely add to the product ideas log.

-- Pete, founder, Pixie Labs

Re: Show HN: Echelon – A safe way to manage your company’s Twitter accounts

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The invitation flow is very roundabout (even if you sheepishly admit it :-)), and the group account invitation doesn't seem to work at first. I tried to authorize a third-party account (inside of an anonymous tab) three times and the invitation didn't seem to be redeemed when I was redirected from Twitter to Echelon. At first I thought something was wrong because, perhaps, you didn't set a "return to" URL to complete…

Hi there, you're absolutely right, the invitation workflow isn't perfect yet. There's actually quite a lot of complex mechanics at play, given that a user can own a group, be an account IN a group and also a member OF a group.

We're working on some improved user journeys and they'll be rolled out soon. MVP, and all that ;)

Thanks,

-- Pete, founder, Pixie Labs

Re: Show HN: Echelon – A safe way to manage your company’s Twitter accounts

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Working on something similar. A free Twitter manager for individuals/teams that includes analytics and scheduling. A couple of screens http://i.imgur.com/0bCOizS.png http://i.imgur.com/rYfCKdN.png Interesting to see how you've done things, good luck! :)

Echelon looks quite good, but needs to include Tweet scheduling before we would be able to make the switch.

Hi Polynomial, this feature is the one we're working on right now :)

-- Pete, founder, Pixie Labs

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