Microblogging system and method for resending posts
A delivery assurance system for ensuring that people have an opportunity to view messages shared by authors to which they subscribe is disclosed. The delivery assurance system is configured to communicate with at least one author and a plurality of followers associated with the at least one author. The system in the preferred embodiment comprises a computer processor configured to receive a post from an author; transmit a first copy of the post to a plurality of users; determine if any of the plurality of users did not see the post; automatically transmit a second copy of the post to each of the plurality of users that did not see the first copy of the post; and remove the first copy of the post from a timeline of each user to which a second copy of the post was transmitted. Transmission of multiple copies of the messages, therefore, enables users to see a message regardless of when the author initially transmitted it.
1. A delivery assurance system in communication with at least one author and a plurality of followers associated with the at least one author, the system comprising: a computer processor configured to:
receive a post from an author;
transmit a first copy of the post to a plurality of users;
determine if any of the plurality of users did not see the first copy of the post within a determined period of time;
automatically transmit a second copy of the post to each of the plurality of users that did not see the first copy of the post; and
remove the first copy of the post from a timeline of each user to which a second copy of the post was transmitted.
2. The delivery assurance system of claim 1 , wherein one or more additional copies of the post are sent to users that did not see a prior post.
3. The delivery assurance system of claim 2 , wherein the one or more additional copies of the posts are sent one at a time with a predetermined frequency.
4. The delivery assurance system of claim 3 , wherein the predetermined frequency is less than twenty-four hours.
5. The delivery assurance system of claim 3 , wherein the predetermined frequency is substantially equal to eight hours.
6. The delivery assurance system of claim 2 , wherein the one or more additional copies of the posts are sent at one or more predetermined times in a day in accordance with a schedule.
7. The delivery assurance system of claim 1 , wherein a user is determined not to have seen the first copy of the post unless: the first copy of the post was displayed to the user for a predetermined length of time, the first copy of the post was clicked on by the user, the first copy of the post was reposted by the user, the first copy of the post was “liked” or “disliked” by the user, or the first copy of the post was saved or bookmarked by the user.
8. A delivery assurance system in communication with at least one author and a plurality of followers associated with the at least one author, the system comprising: a computer processor configured to:
receive a post from an author;
determine whether the post has been transmitted to a plurality of users before;
when the post has been transmitted to the plurality of users before, determine which users have seen the post;
when at least one of the plurality of users has received the transmitted post but has not seen the post, then
a) automatically transmit a first copy of said post to those users that have received the transmitted post but have not seen the post; and
b) delete any earlier instance of said post from a timeline of each of those users to which an instance of said post was transmitted.
9. A method implemented by a delivery assurance system in communication with at least one author and a plurality of followers associated with the at least one author, the method comprising:
receiving a post from an author;
transmitting a first copy of the post to a plurality of users;
determining if any of the plurality of users did not see the first copy of the post;
automatically transmitting at least a second copy of the post to each of the plurality of users that did not see the first copy of the post; and
removing the first copy of the post from a timeline of each user to which the second copy of the post was transmitted;
wherein the method is performed in its entirety by a computer system comprising computer hardware.
10. The method of claim 9 , wherein determining if any of the plurality of users did not see the first copy of the post further comprises determining whether: the first copy of the post was displayed to the user for a predetermined length of time, the first copy of the post was clicked on by the user, the first copy of the post was reposted by the user, the first copy of the post was “liked” or “disliked” by the user, or the first copy of the post was saved or bookmarked by the user.