1. The site i installed on as a test is aimed at a pretty small niche, so the plugin has problems grabbing related content. If i use specific rss feeds only (so i can control content source better) does the de-dupe still work?
Not currently, but there's no reason why it can't so I'll add it for the next version as an option.
2.The greatest power of this plugin seems to be the trends thing. Does the keywords inputed effect what content it drags from trends in any way? for example i would like to set up a general news site aimed around a specific city, can the plugin grab stuff from trends related to just one city?
Each time a post is made, a random keyword is chosen to find content. If this happens to be a Twitter trends keyword, or one of your custom keywords it doesn't matter - that keyword is used to find content. Custom keywords therefore have no effect on the trends - the trends are specified by Twitter on the homepage.
It would be close to impossible to only select twitter trend keyword related to one specific city - plus even if this were possible you may only find one or two keywords per YEAR that happen to be twitter trends related to a city.
To populate a niche blog just enter your own keywords and select all content sources.
3.The more i play with this the more ideas i have for it. I would like to use the autotweeting and indexing part of it with my own content on some very niche sites that would not easily be autofilled, any way of doing that?
Sure. Check "All Posts To Blog" for post tweeting, make sure the auto indexing is on and uncheck all content sources then run cron something like once an hour. This will mean nothing will be posted when cron runs, but the auto indexing will be working.
The tweeting of posts will happen automatically when you post something to the blog - just don't post hundreds of pieces of content in a sort space of time - WTB will tweet the post immediately and all this action could have bad effect on your account - just use common sense.
4. Dont know if this is a bug or just my limited testing, but the yahoo answers content only seems to scrape the question, and not related answers??
That's correct. Using the answers as comments is something planned for future versions of WTB.
lastly, and please dont slap me for being lazy, but do you have any documentation about avoiding twitter bans etc, I can afford to keep buying new accounts, but i prefer to spend time getting it right 1st, for example i want to customize all 100 twitter account i am buying, but dont want to log into all of them from the same ip, any idea what there general limits etc are?
I've had about 10 accounts banned out of around 1k that I'm using with WTB across various blogs. I find that they don't ban for posting to accounts from the same IP - they ban mainly for the following 3 reasons:
1. Mass account creation from one IP
2. Other users flagging your account as spam
3. Excessive following or unfollowing
My advice would be:
1. Make sure all accounts are created from different IPs
2. Each profile should have a custom pic, some bio info, custom background etc
3. Once the accounts are created, start tweeting quality stuff (WTB tweets are quality) immediately - don't leave them sitting empty
4. Take it easy with following + unfollowing
I've been doing the above and even whilst making hundreds of tweets per account, per day in some cases and am seeing no adverse effects.
I may make a post with some more info on this soon, but remember that I can only make recommendations - your accounts are of course, your responsibility and I can't guarantee they will last forever as I don't own Twitter
