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lehrblogger — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:29:49 -0000

Great! I'm glad that worked, and feel free to ping us either here or at support@bit.ly if you have any further difficulties.

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Totanaca — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:52:16 -0000

I did some research on firefox and found out how to delete cookies by site. Wish I had known about this before. I blasted every conceivable cookie that might have been a problem and started over. I think things are working now. Thanks much for the tip.

Rich

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Totanaca — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:35:45 -0000

Hi thanks for the response.
I use Firefox 3.5 (latest updates) The problem is not entering username/password. The problem comes when I try to Post. Then I get an error message saying:

The Twitter password you saved on bitly is no longer valid for your Twitter account.

There is an additional bit of info. I use a utility to manage passwords with the many web sites that I visit. It is called SignupSheild. I might try leaving it inactive and see what happens.

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Re: Bento Box Interface Updates

lehrblogger — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:50:59 -0000

Sorry you're having trouble - what error message are you getting back? What browser are you using when you attempt to enter your Twitter username/password? Have you tried clearing your cookies and cache?

Re: Bento Box Interface Updates

lehrblogger — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:50:05 -0000

What sort of problems are you having with the search box? Is it not working? Or is there functionality you'd like to have that we don't currently offer? If it's the latter, feel free to request the feature on our UserVoice suggestion forum at http://bitly.uservoice.com/

Thanks for using bit.ly!

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Totanaca — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:50:24 -0000

Really want to use bitly, but your software refuses to accept my Twitter account data is true and accurate. Can you please fix this so I can use Bitly?

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Dan Cass — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:09:40 -0000

I'm loving the basic service, the look and the price is right!

But - how do I quickly, easily search through my links? I've had some trouble with the search box - am I doing something wrong?

Re: Bento Box Interface Updates

lehrblogger — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:52:48 -0000

ah, I see now - there isn't currently a way to do that, but a number of other people have requested the feature on our UserVoice suggestion forum at http://bitly.uservoice.com/. We'll try to implement that sooner if more people ask for it there.

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stevemouzon — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:11:09 -0000

I only joined bit.ly today, so I never saw the old version. Let me ask my question another way: I publish my blog with iWeb, so the page titles unfortunately all come up the same, and I haven't yet found a way to change that. So what I'm trying to do is to change the page title in the bit.ly list. For example check out this page:
http://www.originalgreen.or...
iWeb titles the page as "the Original Green," which is the title of the entire site, but I want to use "Miami 21" as the title instead on my bit.ly link. Otherwise, everything on my bit.ly home page that links to the blog has the same title. Is there a way to do this?

Re: Bento Box Interface Updates

lehrblogger — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:33:23 -0000

Bento box should just be integrated into the current front page at http://bit.ly - try clearing your browser's cookies and cache if you don't think you are seeing it. If you do see it, click the "Show Options" link just under the "Shorten" button to see the options for adding a "Custom Name" and sharing your link on Twitter.

Feel free to email us at support@bit.ly, and enjoy!

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stevemouzon — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:59:15 -0000

How do I get to the Bento Box? I'm a new user (just started today) and am trying to discover how to add a custom name, but don't see it anywhere. I do own Bento, if that helps.

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lehrblogger — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:32:46 -0000

You can monitor the number of clicks on any bit.ly link by adding a "+" to the end of the URL - so http://bit.ly/apidocs will have its info page at http://bit.ly/apidocs+

For additional monitoring of all traffic to your website, you might want to try other complimentary analytics tools such as http://chartbeat.com and http://www.google.com/analy...

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lehrblogger — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:28:39 -0000

We don't currently offer statistics across multiple bit.ly links, but I think that's something other people have asked for on our UserVoice suggestion forum at http://bitly.uservoice.com/

We do offer statistics for a single link across multiple time periods - check out the "Now", "Past Week", "Past Month" and "Total" sections of the graph on the info page for any link.

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lehrblogger — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:24:11 -0000

Which submitted information are you sure is accurate? To remove or re-add your Twitter account to your bit.ly account, simply follow these steps:

1. Log in to your Bit.ly account.
2. Click on the account link in the upper right corner by your Bit.ly username.
3. Click under Linked Accounts - REMOVE button.
4. To re-add the Twitter account to your Bit.ly account, fill in the username/password fields and click the ADD button.

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Joshn — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:43:14 -0000

Is it possible to see how many clicks (overall) for a certain time period... not just the last hour as is shown on the home page? I know you can for individual links. But if I want to see everything clicked on today, can I?

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Joshn — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:52:01 -0000

Check boxes would be good! That way if posting to 3 accounts you don't have to copy and paste and click buttons.

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Totanaca — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:16:14 -0000

I keep getting a notice that my Twitter information is incorrect even though I have checked it over and over and I am submitting accurate information.

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colonnews24 — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:50:51 -0000

How can I have more clicks and how can I monitor my traffics.

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dilsastaff — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:46:30 -0000

excelente

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Greg — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:38:25 -0000

Glad to hear about the fix and things are certainly looking up.

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stinginthetail — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:11:35 -0000

i must read your blogs more - i found out a heap of useful things i didn't know :) and congrats on the bit.ly previewer - excellent.

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Andrys — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:28:06 -0000

It works very smoothly now, which sort of astonishes me, with so much to keep track of. Thanks!

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lehrblogger — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:22:34 -0000

I'm glad you're enjoying bit.ly!

1. bit.ly links that you create with TweetDeck won't be added to your history because there is currently not a way for you to integrate your bit.ly account with TweetDeck. You can still track those links by adding a "+" to the URL, but if you want stats for your specific links you can shorten them on http://bit.ly and copy-paste them into TweetDeck, or you can just post to Twitter right from the site.

2. Not currently, but feel free to chime in with the others who have requested this feature on our UserVoice suggestion forum at http://bitly.uservoice.com/

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lehrblogger — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:17:40 -0000

Thanks everyone for the suggestions! We'll definitely keep them in mind for future UI revisions.

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heartofwisdom — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:14:26 -0000

Thanks for bit.ly I just switched from Budurl based on super review at http://bit.ly/6JVM4 .

1. When I use biy.ly on Tweetdeck I don't see the stats at http://blog.bit.ly? Does it take a while or am I using it wrong?
2. Is there a way to save the Tweet (with full description) so I can weet aain later.

Thank you,
Robin