Username and password to the 10,000 follower Twitter account that we created yesterday

Here it is, first come first served. http://www.twitter.com/10000in24 Username: Paul Password: Daniels First person to log in and change the password keeps the account and can do with it whatever they please. If you try to log in and it fails then you know that someone has already beaten you to it.  Read More →

10,000 Twitter followers successfully generated in under 24 hours

We said we could do it. Here it is. A Twitter account with 10,000 followers in under 24 hours. @10000in24 The exact figure is 10,523 followers in 7 hours, 21 minutes and 4 seconds. Check it out. But how did we do it? How did we get 10,000 twitter followers in 24 hours? We clearly didn’t aggressively follow. Look at the follower to following ratio. So what magic trick did we employ to send that Twitter account follower counter spinning like a... Read More

10,000 Twitter followers in 24 hours

Here it is. Proof that you can trick your way to a 10,000 follower Twitter account in under 24 hours using a Twitter loophole. @10000in24 Follow it if you like but that won’t make any difference. But make sure you keep an eye on it to see if you can see what is going on when it suddenly races towards 10,000 followers. In under 24 hours it will have over 10,000 followers. Tomorrow we will explain how we did it and then give away the account by... Read More

Dribble invitations

We have 4 Dribble invitations to give away. Since we are not designers we don’t really know what Dribble is nor would we really benefit from it in any way. We’d just clog it up. Kind of like internet marketing syndicates clog up Squidoo and Posterous. Why did we get them? We have no idea. They just floated into one of our Upstart Blogger email addresses. However, a quick search shows that these things are quite rare and pretty hard to... Read More

People judge you by your typos

Simply put — Misspellings are a quick way to lose readership. I am guilty of typing faster than I think and thinking faster than I type. Most blog interfaces include a check spelling option.  The problem with many (if not all) of these is that you must actively engage the spell check for it to work.  So, you’ve finished your masterpiece…worked so hard…it took much longer than you’d planned…and you hit submit and... Read More

Is John Cougar Mellencamp right?

Speaking recently at a public seminar at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles Tuesday, John Cougar Mellencamp said this: I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb. It’s destroyed the music business. It’s going to destroy the movie business And then he said this after listening to a remastered Beatles track on an iPod: You could barely even recognize it as the same song. You could tell it was those guys singing,... Read More

The Twitter loophole that will blow your mind and add 10,000 followers to your account in under 60 seconds

Upstart Blogger and Twitter have a very rocky history. In the box are the remains of over 700 Twitter accounts, around 100 of which have been suspended for reasons which are not entirely clear, 598 of them are dormant, and 2 of them we use as normal Twitter accounts. After spending a little time playing with the 598 dormant accounts something quickly became apparent. Twitter has left a massive loophole open that allows anyone to get 10,000 followers... Read More

From chaos comes order, a discussion.

A lot of people think that I have fallen off the face of the Earth. . . Well, obviously, this isn’t true. I’m here, alive and (sort of) well. Things have been insane, like ‘we should probably put Ella into a nuthouse’ insane. Between work, home, travelling and about a thousand other things I’ve managed to (finally) find a spare 10 minutes to reappear on Upstart, before getting back to the daily grind. After the past... Read More

Attractive Wordpress designers wanted for fun and friendship maybe more

What on earth could we mean? Is this the start of a new and exciting dating service for Wordpress designers? No. But it could be the start of something big for everyone involved. Long story short. Upstart Blogger has a rich history of releasing high quality ,free, premium and minimalist Wordpress themes but the current owners can’t design their way out of a paper bag. And that’s something we want to address. Our traffic plus your design... Read More

Upstart Blogger alumni program

Upstart Blogger wandered wide eyed and bushy tailed onto the internet over 6 six years ago and soon made a name for itself, releasing some of the best minimalist Wordpress themes ever to have graced a blog. Traffic soon poured in and Upstart Blogger grew into something much bigger. A quick start guide to building, promoting, maintaining and profiting from a successful blog. On several occasions during this 6 year period many bloggers have captained... Read More