From Twitter today:

For this reason, aside from Promoted Tweets, we will not allow any third party to inject paid tweets into a timeline on any service that leverages the Twitter API.

What does this mean? If you are a user of sites like Sponsored Tweets, then you can’t use them anymore unless they change how they operate.  Twitter’s post doesn’t explain who they are going after — I’m guessing its the companies making money.  My problem with Promoted Tweets is that it doesn’t do the user any good — just big name companies with open pockets.  I don’t make a cent off of it, Twitter does.  I don’t know — it seems to cross the line into stealing content because I don’t think they ask your permission or anything to use a Tweet you’ve done and turn it into a promoted tweet (I could be wrong and if I am please correct me).

That being said — I’ve added a new category to my advertising/media kit.  If you are a company looking for somebody to Twitter for you (I’ve got over 20,000 followers!), please head over there!

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I didn’t drop off the face of the earth.  I swear.  Instead, everyone in my house has decided to get sick including me.  Seriously.  I started with Will and his nasty cough that was keeping him up all night.  He still has the nasty cough a week later, but it’s not keeping him up.  Then we had me and my runny nose/sore throat.  Mine is off and on and more annoying than anything else.  Lastly, we have Madison.  Oh my Madison.  If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll know what happened.  She threw up.  Now, if you read my blog regularly, you’ll know what happens when Madison throws up.  We end up in the hospital.  That’s been our life when this happens.  However, remember, we met with her geneticist, and we had a game plan.  Guess what?  The game plan worked!  We kept her hydrated with the special concoction we had to make for her.  She already has went back to school and no hospital visit!  Now, we have to manage to not get the flu again.  To make up for my blogging delay, here’s a picture of Bill and I on Halloween:

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I am trying to get all my work done, because we are going away this weekend. That’s a lot easier said than done. We are still working on the potty training. I let Will go diaperless yesterday morning, and he peed on my floor 3 times before noon. Needless to say, we won’t be trying that again. He is interested in sitting on the potty, so we’ll just have to keep doing that. I’ve got a ton of great reviews coming up over at Lisa Reviews.  That’s what my goal is to get done today — write about 20 reviews to get caught up and have great giveaways for my readers.  My problem is that I swear I am ADD or ADHD.  I get easily distracted by shiny things like Twitter.  At a minimum, I am hoping to get enough reviews written to post through the weekend, and I’ll start trying to catch up again next week.

I’ve already started packing for another weekend in Green Bay.  Yes, we were there last weekend.  However, that was for a boys camping trip.  This weekend we will be going to my family reunion and my cousin’s graduation party.  It’s kinda funny — last weekend, I packed jeans and sweatshirts.  This weekend it’s suppose to be 95!  I’m get sick of this crazy weather.

Well, off to get some work done.  Have a great weekend!

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I am helping one of my friends with a Twitter Party tomorrow night and would love for any of you to attend!  No, seriously — there’s tons of prizes to be had:

1. Grand prize: $100 Gift Card (1)
2. Raggs Rocks DVD Activity Books (10)
3. Raggs Pawtographs (signed photo from The Raggs Band) (10)
4. Plush Toys (5)
5. Raggs Back Pack (5)

Isn’t that awesome?  Go check out The Media Moms to find out what you have to do to enter!  The twitter party will have experts in getting your children in media and print!  They will teach you how to avoid scams too.

Now, the other part of this post is for the Raggs contest.  This is pretty cool.  You can your kids on the Raggs TV show.  All you have to do is create a 2-3 minute video and upload it to their site!  Winners will travel like true rock stars and get an all expenses paid trip to tape an upcoming Raggs episode!  This contest goes through the end of June.

These are two events that you are going to be a part of!

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Lisa Reviews is giving away Protect A Bed Allergy Products!

Beautiful British Columbia is giving way some Blu Frog.

Comment, blog about, subscribe, and/or Twitter to enter to win  a T bird and the Breaks CD from carp(e) libris reviews.

Comment, blog about, subscribe, and/or Twitter to enter to win the book Don’t Throw it, Grow it (Fun Book for Growing Houseplants from Kitchen Scraps ) from dkMommy.

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