TL;DR: I’m making a field guide for agencies and brands who want to avoid getting snagged in spammer nets on social platforms like Twitter, Pinterest, and Tumblr, and now is the time to let me know what you need included in it.

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As my Twitter family saw earlier today, I’ve been conducting some live-editing parties (they get pretty crazy, *nerd snort*) on Google Docs for a new field guide that will be released in 2013 all about…

RATE LIMITS ON SOCIAL PLATFORMS

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Basically it’s all about Twitter Jail, Pinterest Jail, getting annoying captchas thrown atcha every other second, and getting suspended… when you’re an innocent agency just minding your own marketing business.

This field guide is not for agressive marketers. It’s for agencies and brands who manage lots of accounts, and accidentally get treated like spammers. #injustice

As people who’ve been in on the Google Docs editing sessions know, there is already a lot of structure and content, but it’s not too late to throw stuff at me about what you/your agency needs included.

The usual contact methods:

twitter @bluechoochoo
tumblr [reblog this post w/commentary or send Tumblr Mail]
email: lilbluechoochoo [at] google’s mail situation

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(screenshot/preview from live-editing session below. Ripped from the Google Docs)

Short version:

If you followed Pinterest’s Tumblr (blog) from inside Tumblr, you have to refollow it, because they made a new one.

Long version:

africaistheefuture:

Growth! @Pinterest moving blog from Tumblr to onsite

pinterest:

The Pinterest blog has moved. Please visit blog.pinterest.com

Pinterest didn’t move off of Tumblr, they’re still on it. Their blog post wasn’t very clear.

But if you’re on Tumblr, you do have to re-follow it.

Why the confusion? They set up a new Tumblr. (If you wanna get technical, their old Tumblr was “pinterest” (.tumblr.com) and their new Tumblr is “pinterblog.”(.tumblr.com). Both are/were mapped to http://blog.pinterest.com.

Old (Dashboard screenshot)

New (Dashboard screenshot)

How I figured it out:

Last night Pinterest tweeted a new blog post, that didn’t show up in my Tumblr dashboard. Confused, I visited it, and the Tumblr “follow” button appeared, despite the fact that I already followed Pinterest’s Tumblr. (Or so I thought. Mystery! Intrigue! *X-Files song.*

They might have done this because they wanted a group Tumblr, and you can’t make your primary Tumblr a group Tumblr.

They also changed their avi + theme. (Looks great!)

As of now, the old Tumblr still lives at http://pinterest.tumblr.com.

RIP, that tumblr/theme. 

So… just to recap: If you followed Pinterest on Tumblr, you have to refollow, coz technically it’s a whole new Tumblr.