Pellet Fan
Get Started Here => Important Things to Remember => Topic started by: Bentley on August 26, 2017, 11:28:08 AM
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If the begining of this site is anything like Pelletheads.com, we will go down a few times in the next couple of years (although Pelletheads.com did not have our IT guy, at least not in the beginning, so maybe I am wrong). I do not want a Facebook account and this is the only way I can think of to let Members know what is happening and how long it will take. I do not have a Smart Phone or use a Tablet. I use my computer. I do not think you even need to sign up or "join" me or what ever the verbiage is. So if the site goes down, Twitter will be the place I put the info at.
If you are a Twitter user and can confirm what I have said is correct or tell me how to use it better I will appreciated it!
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Twitter users select people they want to "follow." If someone "follows" Lady Gaga they will receive whatever Lady Gaga "tweets." But they need to "follow" Lady Gaga to receive her "tweets." So PF members will need to join Twitter and "follow" you to receive your emergency messages.
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So you just cant go to twitter and look up PelletFan and see what I posted?
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So you just cant go to twitter and look up PelletFan and see what I posted?
I don't think so. That's not the way my kids and I use it, anyway.
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So you just cant go to twitter and look up PelletFan and see what I posted?
I believe you can as I could see the one you setup for the other forum.
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I just went to twitter and without signing in I searched on pellet fan. No hit. I found some people with pellet in their names, like Pelletier. So I don't know how to get your emergency messages without joining twitter and following PF.
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PelletFan if spacing and caps make a difference...should have found all this stuff out before I set it up!
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I tried again without signing in. I searched on PelletFan. No results.
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Oh well, not sure why I thought it would work on Pelletheads.com or here! If ya have to follow it kind of defeats the purpose if you are not a Twitter person like me...Man I do not want to start a Facebook page, but I have no idea how to inform Members if something does happen!
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I found it and left a message
Oh well, not sure why I thought it would work on Pelletheads.com or here! If ya have to follow it kind of defeats the purpose if you are not a Twitter person like me...Man I do not want to start a Facebook page, but I have no idea how to inform Members if something does happen!
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You're on the right track. You are a twitter member. But you don't see my tweets (or Lady Gaga's). But if you "followed" me you would get a notice on your email every time I "tweeted" something.
That's the perfect solution for PF emergency notices.
You tweet that the sight is down and I'll get an email alerting me to your message.
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I found it and left a message
Were you signed in to twitter?
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Yes.
I found it and left a message
Were you signed in to twitter?
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I thought you must have been signed in. So to address Bentley's question, people who want to receive his emergency messages must be Twitter members. They just can't go to twitter.com and read what he posts.
They may as well "follow" Bentley as long as they have to join Twitter to read his messages. The benefit to joining "following" is that they will get an email notice that he's "tweeted" something. It doesn't have to be an emergency message. It might be, "Congratulations to XXXX for the walk at the XXXXX. Read about it on PF." Or "XXXX just posted her 1,000th post on PF." It might promote PF use.
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i don't have twitter and I found it.
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No, really, you all aren't confusing me... :P
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here is a screen shot
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4436/36703200041_1165013627_z.jpg)
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i don't have twitter and I found it.
I see that, too. I don't find it when I use my desktop or laptop without logging in.
Marcia's never been to twitter.com, so I used her laptop to go there, searched on PelletFan and found it. Maybe her laptop never having been used to login to the Twitter site is significant.
So, Bentley, PF members that can't get onto PF and want to see your alert message appear to fall into three categories–
Twitter non-members—must remember to go to twitter.com and search on PelletFan to see it
Twitter members that don't "follow" PelletFan—must remember to go to twitter.com and search on PelletFan to see it
Twitter members that "follow" PelletFan—will receive an email that there's a pelletfan.com alert message
EDIT: Darn you autocorrect!
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i book marked the twitter site of PelletFan so i can go there if there is an issue here
https://twitter.com/search?q=PelletFan
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I was gonna pull a Woody with the VHS tape to help set up the VCR...and say this will all be good for for folks to see so they can check Twitter if there is and issue...Guess what Woody, folks wont be able to get on here, if there is an issue!
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Bentley, How about you keeping a separated file of all the email addresses from pelletfan and then you can just send an email to everyone on the list with a single message?
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I guess a person that was not lazy would do that. But I did not think there would be 79 Members after 20 days either. And if there are say 1200 in a year...not sure how realistic a 1200 person email is? Members just need to know, if the site goes down, if you want to know updates of what is going on, you have to go to twitter and search for PelletFan...
I just went to Twitter, was not logged in, typed pelletfan in the search and the page came up with the all the current tweets...about the only way realistically I see keeping folks informed. Because I am not starting a Facebook page, and I know of no other way to do it!
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I have twitter (am logged in) and found pelletfan easily.
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All you have to do is
https://twitter.com/pelletfan
No account needed.
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All you have to do is
https://twitter.com/pelletfan
No account needed.
True. The advantage to being a Twitter member and "following" PelletFan is that you'll receive an email notice that PelletFan has "tweeted" something, most likely a comment about the site being down. Otherwise, you'll have to remember what to do.
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All you have to do is
https://twitter.com/pelletfan
No account needed.
Thanks for the link.
Once you get to the sight just bookmark it. That way when you open Pellet fan.com and it wont work just click the twitter bookmark and you are there.
Mudflap
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We experienced a small glitch on our computers tonight and for about 5 minutes it looked like maybe the site had crashed. Then everything was normal again at home so probably just some interference with our broadband provider.
BUT... it got me to thinking that we should remind folks that there is a back-up communication system in place should something unexpected happen, the twitter account that Bent set up for Pelletfan. So, if we lose the site for some period be sure to check the twitter page and we will tell you all that we know of what is going on.
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And if the site had gone down tonight, I would have remembered the Twitter account about Feb 3rd!
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I've got it bookmarked.
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No twitter or face book for me either. I told DT to give it up also, as it just gets him in trouble. :rotf:
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No twitter or face book for me either. I told DT to give it up also, as it just gets him in trouble. :rotf:
you don't need a twitter account to be able to view the page if you bookmark it
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For the few that follow, forgive the Tweet. But a contest is a contest!
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Given that PelletHeads has gone down again, not bad for folks to be reminded that we have this twitter page and also fb pages to communicate if anything should happen with this site.
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I am not starting a Facebook page.
Amen BentMan,
I will have nothing to do with Facebook.
If you do weaken and start a page, I will not "Friend" you.
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I use it personally, but not much anymore. I had forgotten Kristin was trying to be Proactive and made like 4 of them so others could not use our name. I had completely forgotten about them as I have been once and I would venture to guess there is zero activity on any of them!
I am not starting a Facebook page.
Amen BentMan,
I will have nothing to do with Facebook.
If you do weaken and start a page, I will not "Friend" you.