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The service tracks celebrity tweets. Signing up allows you to pick the celebrities instead of seeing everyone. I have outlined the target audience here he tar

The service tracks celebrity tweets. Signing up allows you to pick the celebrities instead of seeing everyone. I have outlined the target audience here he target audience is broad.Someone interested in tweets by celebs but does not want to either * create a twitter account and add celebs one by one * or feel like reading the celeb tweets only sometimes and does not want to pollute the twitter stream with non-stop celeb tweets.

DanHulton 17y ago
You should have United States celebrities auto-selected. Or at least someone. Because showing up to blank screens with a non-intuitive way of turning it on is just no good.
- boundlessdreamz 17y ago
  It is a bug. Will fix it.
petesalty 17y ago
The ability to pick your celebrities once you register was not obvious and something that I thought the site needed. I'd make sure this was front and center as an incentive to register. Having said that, why make people register to select their celebrities? If there's not a good reason then drop an id as a cookie and track their choices that way. I was not going to register, but had I been able to select the celebs right from the get go I probably would have done that then returned.
- boundlessdreamz 17y ago
  I had thought about that but since the target audience is non-tech people, they might get very pissed/confused when their selections are no longer applicable when they return to the site because the cookie got deleted.
  - petesalty 17y ago
    Actually I've done this with a number of sites before and that scenario rarely happens. Non technical people almost never delete their cookies (at least from what I've seen). The way I've tackled it before is let them do X first (select their celebs lets say) without registering. Drop the cookie and create a user record linked to it. Then tell them that if they register they can access their list from any computer (work and home are big sellers). It's pretty effective for getting registrations and you shouldn't encounter as many problems as you think you will. If you're encountering a lot of trouble getting users to register, give it a try for a couple of weeks and see if you get more adoption. Alternatively you could let them pick their celebs first, then make them register. It's kind of annoying for the user but let's them see what's available (and get a little invested) before registration. Anyway, just my 2c.

DanHulton 17y ago

You should have United States celebrities auto-selected. Or at least someone. Because showing up to blank screens with a non-intuitive way of turning it on is just no good.

boundlessdreamz 17y ago
It is a bug. Will fix it.

petesalty 17y ago

The ability to pick your celebrities once you register was not obvious and something that I thought the site needed. I'd make sure this was front and center as an incentive to register. Having said that, why make people register to select their celebrities? If there's not a good reason then drop an id as a cookie and track their choices that way. I was not going to register, but had I been able to select the celebs right from the get go I probably would have done that then returned.

boundlessdreamz 17y ago
I had thought about that but since the target audience is non-tech people, they might get very pissed/confused when their selections are no longer applicable when they return to the site because the cookie got deleted.
- petesalty 17y ago
  Actually I've done this with a number of sites before and that scenario rarely happens. Non technical people almost never delete their cookies (at least from what I've seen). The way I've tackled it before is let them do X first (select their celebs lets say) without registering. Drop the cookie and create a user record linked to it. Then tell them that if they register they can access their list from any computer (work and home are big sellers). It's pretty effective for getting registrations and you shouldn't encounter as many problems as you think you will. If you're encountering a lot of trouble getting users to register, give it a try for a couple of weeks and see if you get more adoption. Alternatively you could let them pick their celebs first, then make them register. It's kind of annoying for the user but let's them see what's available (and get a little invested) before registration. Anyway, just my 2c.