Whoa!  Looks like our suggested following feature has been working a little too well, as we’ve been seeing some of our suggested members wondering how they got so many followers on Gawkk.

We recently sent an email out to all of our suggested members.  Here’s the email update:

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Dear Gawkk Member,

You may have noticed that more people are following you on Gawkk and that you’re now getting emails about these new followings.  We’ve seen some tweets about this activity and wanted to address the issue to let you know what’s going on.

Last week, we introduced a suggested members and channels area at http://www.gawkk.com/setup/suggestions. We selected you as a suggested user because your activity on Gawkk seemed interesting, even if you haven’t visited us in a while.  Since then, most new members signing up have followed our suggested members and channels, so you probably now have several hundred followers.  These are all real people who each chose to follow you from the suggested users list, but we were not notifying you of these new follows.

Yesterday (May 26) we turned on follow notification emails for suggested members.  The default setting was to send a separate email for each new follow, but we have since changed it so that the default is now a single email once a day listing all new follows in one email. You can also now update your email settings for new follow notices at http://www.gawkk.com/settings/email/

We hope that this explanation is helpful and that you’re happy being a suggested member to follow on Gawkk.  We look forward to seeing more of your great likes and comments about the videos on the site.  If you’re still somehow concerned about being a suggested member, just email me back and we can easily remove your listing and place another Gawkk member on the suggested list in your place.

Thanks again for using Gawkk!

Gary & Thomas

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We hope this helps everyone understand this new feature, and we look forward to more great activity from the Gawkk community!

We’re now live with the ability for you to sign in to Gawkk with either your Twitter or Facebook account!  Thanks to the technical wizardry of @tsmango you can now sign up for Gawkk with just one click.  OK, we’ll admit that it takes more than one click to finalize things, but it’s still a lot easier and things like your avatar picture are automatically included.

If you already have a Gawkk account, you can continue to login with it.  You can still cross-post your Gawkk activity from an existing Gawkk account to Twitter, although we will be updating the cross posting features to use OAuth and Facebook connect in the future as well.

Enjoy!

Gawkk has been launching a number of enhancements and improvements, almost daily.  Our recent improvements include a fancy new signup (and login) overlay that allows you to easily create a Gawkk account.  We’ll be adding support soon for Twitter and Facebook Connect to make it even easier to use Gawkk.

This new overlay also allows us to expose more of our functionality to users who are new to the site, including the “What are you watching?” post box.  Visitors can now interact with nearly the entire site and signin only when needed for a specific action.

We think the new signin overlay will make it even easier to get to know Gawkk.