Reinforce Media, LLC

I have been working on ProbableFollow.com for a couple months now and recently it is starting to gain speed.  I really want to help it along by talking with those people who make the claims:

If you follow me, I’ll follow back

or

I always follow back

I want to engage these people, because they are the people who need to be called out or who would benefit from using Probable Follow.  They are essentially, exactly who I built the site for.

The problem is that I do not want to spam these people or send out hundreds of the same message to everyone with a keyword.  Not only is it annoying, it could get my account kicked off Twitter.

My question to you is: How would you go about engaging these people?

This is a short post, enjoy.

I have found that there are usually two reasons why you will see the FTP screen when trying to upgrade a WordPress plugin:

1. The user level owner of your scripts is higher than the user level of PHP.
   1. Example: scripts are all set to be owned by root
   2. Solution: Try setting the user to “apache”: chown -R apache ./
2. The permissions of your files are set too low
   1. Solution: The files all need to be writable by the owner : chmod 755, or 666
      1. Remember: The lower permissions you can get away with, the better!

The last solution is to use One Click Plugin Updater: My WordPress Plugins won’t update and the FTP option doesn’t work

I have been using the Twitter API for some time and so I have seen the rise and fall of twitter connectivity.

It is frustrating at best, but we all know that Twitter is one of the most prevalent APIs out there. As such, I have learned to live with it and try to program around it.

As I account for the fact that on one request Twitter is responding and then the next request Twitter is gone, I realize the assumptions I made in my code.  My biggest mistake is the assumption that Twitter would be up and responding to my code. When I was writing the code Twitter was not crashing as often as it has been lately. I made a BIG MISTAKE.

I have been going through the code and trying to catch these issues anywhere I request for data from Twitter.  I suggest that if you are a Twitter programmer, that you do the same any place where you get a response (or don’t get a response) from Twitter.  The biggest reason? You don’t want crazy error code popping out to your users because Twitter went down.

My goal for Reinforce Media is to create a company with the purpose of helping businesses excel through the use of their own websites and Social Media.

Reinforce Media will provide tools and services to meet this end including:

Social Media Tools

Contract Development

Website and Marketing consulting