Twitter feed, and Other Issues
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 12:20 am
1) As regular readers know, we were hacked on January 5 and the website was blocked. Had everything back in 48 hrs, Google Webmaster has given us a clean bill of health since then, but there has been some persistant quirky behavior - some re-directs to some odd page evashawsports.com or some such.
2) Just this evening, after racking my brain for several weeks, I THINK I finally have the problem solved. One .htaccess file in the root of the hosting server which was not cleaned up. I fixed this this PM, and now the residual quirkiness seems to be resolved.
3) If anyone finds more quirky behavior, please email me.
4) At this year's state tournament we are going to try to run real-time updates via Twitter. I have a page set up at
http://www.wvmat.com/twitter.htm
(The service I used the last two years, CoveritLive, is no longer free. To continue to use this would be $thousands).
This will only work if we can get a reliable internet connection at the Civic Center, and a few other maybes. However, I have tested it some and so far it seems to work. Keep your fingers crossed.
You don't have to register with Twitter to get the updates via the page noted above. However, if you are a Twitter user, you can log in to your account and follow that way.
It is possible to get the twitter feeds via your smart phone, Kindle, or some other hand held devices, if you have the Twitter app activated and then add the two WV-Mat Twitter accounts as ones you are following. (Note: I have TWO Twitter accoounts. We are going to try to have TWO twitterers, one for AAA and one for AA/A. It is hard for one person to keep up with both).
Twitter takes a while to figure out. That is why I am posting this in advance in case someone wants to tinker around with it ahead of time.
By all means, if any questions, post back to this thread. One of the reasons for having this website is for old fogeys like me to learn the ways of the Internet. I probably won't be able to answer your questions, but perhaps someone else can.
2) Just this evening, after racking my brain for several weeks, I THINK I finally have the problem solved. One .htaccess file in the root of the hosting server which was not cleaned up. I fixed this this PM, and now the residual quirkiness seems to be resolved.
3) If anyone finds more quirky behavior, please email me.
4) At this year's state tournament we are going to try to run real-time updates via Twitter. I have a page set up at
http://www.wvmat.com/twitter.htm
(The service I used the last two years, CoveritLive, is no longer free. To continue to use this would be $thousands).
This will only work if we can get a reliable internet connection at the Civic Center, and a few other maybes. However, I have tested it some and so far it seems to work. Keep your fingers crossed.
You don't have to register with Twitter to get the updates via the page noted above. However, if you are a Twitter user, you can log in to your account and follow that way.
It is possible to get the twitter feeds via your smart phone, Kindle, or some other hand held devices, if you have the Twitter app activated and then add the two WV-Mat Twitter accounts as ones you are following. (Note: I have TWO Twitter accoounts. We are going to try to have TWO twitterers, one for AAA and one for AA/A. It is hard for one person to keep up with both).
Twitter takes a while to figure out. That is why I am posting this in advance in case someone wants to tinker around with it ahead of time.
By all means, if any questions, post back to this thread. One of the reasons for having this website is for old fogeys like me to learn the ways of the Internet. I probably won't be able to answer your questions, but perhaps someone else can.