happy monday, folks -- and hello to everyone who's joined us this past weekend!
a few things:
1) looking for other artists/intl taylor bots that're also fast and free?
2) wanna sign up for early access to the mobile app?
tweets like this -- and those where people are saying they got signed cds because of this account -- thank you all.
it sincerely means a lot to see these notes. ♥️
i just want to build something that's fast, good, and useful. thank you all for the opportunity.
so it looks like the US taylor merch store has turned on cloudflare's bot protection again -- which is good for humans and bad for bots.
what does this really mean?
well - if you look like a bot to them, you'll get delayed by about 15-20s for every page you try to load.
congratulations to you, and to everyone else who got a signed cd!!!
i love hearing stuff like this; it really makes all of this work feel so much more impactful. ❤️
was working on the app when this happened: beat the twitter notification by 18 seconds or so. no built-in delays on my end either, per usual.
now imagine this happening but for a signed item or lover (live from paris).
exciting times. stay tuned.
good morning/afternoon/evening, y'all! happy august. 😉
since you seemed to like the last set of filters, here's some more that i've been working on. and this isn't even my favorite set. 👀
(and for those who've been asking: yes, the app will be free.)
thank you. ❤️
i started working on this before i put together the twitter bots.
what if I told you there was a way to get merch alerts without installing anything?
how about one tap/click from your notifications, direct to checkout, for your favorite artists?
coming soon, i guess.
i'm starting to realize that i need to have more faith in the code i've written for this bot.
i killed my scripts thinking my code was broken and i was spamming - but nope, just a merch drop. 😂
anyways, both android and ios are done. pending the powers that be now.
note that this doesn't really affect what we do here; we've worked around it. :-)
while you're here: we're working on improving accuracy on the new/restocked labels; that should be complete over the next few days.
have a great day, y'all! happy monday.
🫶 we love being at the intersection of fast and free.
saving money from bot subscriptions so you can spend it on merch? priceless.
sign up for early access to the (also free!) mobile app:
more artists, faster notifications w/ settings, w/ more soon.
hey folks!
apologies for the lack of tweets for the cardigan drop - i'll take a peek into logs and see why it didn't catch that but caught the vinyl.
on the bright side, the mobile app got the notification... 😉
i've been styling the mobile app a bit more while waiting for some approvals.
light mode looks alright.
dark mode is kinda giving "i bought your old domain name and i'm selling ads on it" 😂
i'll tell you one thing about the app situation, i guess, while we're at it - the notifications are... fast.
this is a screenshot of the notification i got for the cardigan.
apologies again for the missing cardigan tweets - clearly there's more work to do! :)
so you might've noticed that when the collector's edition sale happened, you got 2x the tweets -- that's actually because we get data so frequently that we sometimes get stale results from the merch store!
this should be fixed now. as a bonus... (1/2)
good morning, good afternoon, and good evening.
i was at a loss for words yesterday after the vienna news broke, and i'm still at a loss for words, so bear with me and my rambling.
i'm glad everyone is safe, and that y'all are taking care of each other.
(1/n)
i'll be honest, i didn't expect a drop sunday at 11am et. i figured that'd actually be a safe time to do server work - shows how wrong i was. 😅
storage is resized, and jobs are back up now. apologies for the inconvenience!
good morning/afternoon/evening!
i wanted to take the time to thank you all for supporting this account (& the international ones!) - and by extension, the idea that you don't need to pay a single cent for fast and free merch alerts.
good morning/afternoon/evening, folks!
and finally, my favorite set of filters. just want notifications for signed items? clothing? you got it.
want to be one of the first to give the app a whirl? fill out the form linked below!
good morning/afternoon/evening, y'all! happy august. 😉
since you seemed to like the last set of filters, here's some more that i've been working on. and this isn't even my favorite set. 👀
(and for those who've been asking: yes, the app will be free.)
thank you. ❤️
... i've made all the merch bots run faster to test and make sure this has been fixed. this includes the intl merch bots, as well as:
the sabrina carpenter merch bots (
@SabCAlerts_US
,
@SabCAlerts_CA
) and the chappell roan merch bot (
@HotToGo_US
)
thank you for your patience! ❤️
learned some things from yesterday's drop:
* fixed a bug! (thanks for putting up with all those midnights sleepwear notifications)
* 'sold out'/'removed' tweets are noisy - so we're getting rid of those indiv tweets
* we're fast - and can make others go fast in response 😎
i also feel the need to thank governments/intelligence agencies for acting on the intel they got. the actions they took yesterday, especially in light of the news coming out this morning, most definitely saved lives.
hi folks!
one more time: if you want to help define the future of
@AlertsForMerch
, please fill out a quick survey at !
and in case you missed it:
@SabCAlerts_US
&
@HotToGo_US
exist - but now, also
@SabCAlerts_CA
by request!
more soon. thank you all. ❤️
seeing how swifties have come together, that's been a good moment amidst all this. the tweets i've seen around how folks have helped others get tickets for future shows and just generally being good to one another, helping folks process - that's what this community's about.
here we go.
recall that the taylor swift store added a speed bump in the form of cloudflare
well, they did more work on their bot protection posture - efficacy to be determined, but it's been done.
tl;dr: premium taylor swift merch bots only exist because free merch bots are being throttled by potentially upwards of 2 minutes.
while building out
@AlertsForMerch
, i poked around to see exactly how performant it needed to be - just like other merch bots did.
you're doing it right if you're following us for taylor swift merch alerts. 😎
the artificial delaying/throttling saga continues - this time, for the international merch bot accounts.
i think i've seen this film before.
the other international taylor swift bots on twitter have now delayed to have a ~10s refresh/alert delay when compared with
@AlertsForMerch
. 0 changes made on my side.
for some reading.
my heart goes out to everyone who's been affected - i can't imagine what it must feel like not only to have something like this taken from you, but also to know that you could've potentially been in harm's way.
hello world!
note that we're still testing for reliability and performance right now, so things might be slow (or just break!) - this is expected. finetuning's happening over the next few days.
good morning/afternoon/evening!
if you would indulge me: i've a quick survey for y'all on the future of
@AlertsForMerch
.
(this is also your time to ask for things! whatever you're thinking about that might be useful or cool to have and use, lemme know!)
so now that there's been a few more product tweets - how do we feel about product categories like "[APPAREL]" or "[DIGITAL]" being used to help quickly scan through drops?
(we'll never do "[ACOUSTIC GUITAR]" though, in case you were wondering.)
yet again deploying another build of the merch bot on a day when i really shouldn't be (🤡 for an announcement at
#LondonTSTheErastour
)
it really is scary fast though.
[DIGITAL] NEW: The Tortured Poets Department Standard Digital Album + "The Albatross (Dancing With Our Hands Tied - Live from Dublin)"
Buy one:
View product:
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it's wild that i have to spin up a new google chrome profile to manage all the
@AlertsForMerch
accounts in one place.
oh yeah, i forgot to mention that
@Alerts4Merch_CA
is a thing.
on the docket still:
* finishing up one final screen
* adding more artists 👀
* making it more pretty (making an icon, theming the thing properly)
thank you for your patience. ❤️
[DIGITAL] NEW: The Tortured Poets Department Standard Digital Album + "My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys" (First Draft Phone Memo)
Buy one:
View product:
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leaving the bots alone for the night so i can go to london n3.
i've definitely got big 🤡 energy today given events over the past two nights, how are y'all feeling about things tonight?
@madicollins1217
offhand, usually -- the sign is usually that the item still shows up in store inventory with 0 stock.
this time around, it looks like the item was removed from the store entirely -- so fingers crossed, but completely unsure.
more about the app here:
3) i wanted to thank
@AutoTaylorAlert
- without them, there wouldn't be other merch bots to begin with - and certainly not this one. the community should've done better by them.
have a great week, folks! ❤️
good morning/afternoon/evening, folks!
and finally, my favorite set of filters. just want notifications for signed items? clothing? you got it.
want to be one of the first to give the app a whirl? fill out the form linked below!
i've made a few tweaks to better support the international accounts; that's live now.
i also did want to get a sense of whether y'all would be interested in getting store inventory via replies to the item tweet -- so go vote!
thank you all again so much! ♥️
@hungergameskee
what a great question!
it made me smile because estimation is oftentimes a hard problem in tech. :P
vague estimate, probably around the end of the month.