First of all, I just wanted to say that TA is an awesome program!
But there is one thing that I am extremely annoyed with. I am getting a lot of "Twitters server is not responding" errors. Whenever I follow/unfollow, anywhere between 30 to 50% of my accounts fail because of that error. Then I have to stop the process when the tasks are completed, delete the successful ones and start the tasks again. Keep doing that until they are all successful.
Anybody else experiencing a high number of errors? I'm thinking that it has to do with my internet connection. I'm about to go with another service provider that is faster and more reliable. Whenever I access Twitter manually, sometimes there is a longer delay before Twitter actually responds. But it does respond most of the time! I realize that if TA gets an error from Twitter, then that error gets reported back. But I do not think that TA is waiting long enough for a response from Twitter.
Here are a few suggestions.
I would like an option to be able to set the number of seconds that TA will wait for Twitter to respond before giving up and reporting the "Twitters server is not responding" error. Instead of this being a fixed internal number.
When TA reports that error and others, it only tries once. Considers that task as complete and makes no attempt to try that task again. This is the only thing that really bugs me with TA. For me, it is not possible for me to use the "repeat all tasks after" option because I always have to manually redo the ones that were unsuccessful.
I would like an option to be able to get TA to retry the unsuccessful tasks. For example, have an option to set an additional timer in case of any errors. If this timer is set at 5 minutes and a selected task receives a "Twitters server is not responding" error or any other error, then TA should go back to that task and retry it when the 5 minutes is up for that failed task. If a thread is not available when the 5 minutes is up, then the next available thread should be assigned to that task. Also, have another option to be able to set the number of times to retry each failed task. If it is set at 6, then TA will only retry that task 6 times before considering it a failed task. This way, TA would not be re-trying these tasks all day.
It would also be nice to be able to manually set a timer for the tasks to start. Using the follow/unfollow module as an example. If I set this timer to 3 hours and click the "Start Tasks" button, then it should start the countdown and start the tasks when the 3 hours is up.
I'm just having to babysit TA way too much in order to make sure that most of the tasks get completed. If I just left it alone, 30 to 50% of my tasks would not get done. Even when I just update the Stats, I have to hit the "Retry failed" button about 10 times before they are all done with no errors.
Just some suggestions. Customer feedback has helped you to make this product great! And it will help you to make it even better yet!
