Not for very long anyway.

I reviewed several manualized social network automators (OnlyWire, Social Poster, Social Marker , EkStreme, Post Toaster, etc) and then summarized the 114 sites they supported. And one of my criticisms was that they either had (a) no monetization or (b) weak but clear. And what fruit does that bear?

Uptime Status for Social Network Automation

Well, of the 114 total sites supported, there were the following errors:

• Excites - 7 minutes to load the home page, etc -> zombie
• Feed Me Links - No registrations allowed
• Feedmarker - No regsistrations allowed
• igool - NSFW Porn
• Linkatopia - No signup allowed
• Musigg - Would not load
• MillionsOfGames - Would not load
• Scuttle - Open source page (duh)
• Shadows - Dead
• Unalog - Dead
• Xilinus - Dead
• Yample - Dead

That is 12 sites, or more than 10% of the list.

I dunno about you, but I can't have a 10% error rate in my business.

List Rot 

Look, we all know there is rot in the list of secondary and tertiary social bookmarking and networking. So you have to check that pages load, that google is still indexing in the primary index (or whatever they're calling it this month), that logins process and links post.

We have a fairly large list of this sort of thing and it really costs a bit in maintenance to keep it up to date. But it's part of our business overhead.

Because "free" isn't "free" when it's broken too often.