I am not sure exactly how long they take to go through, but for some reason they seem to take a little while to do so. I would guess a day at the most? If it doesn't go through by tomorrow, let me know!
You did make sure to use your own personal refferal link right?
Yea, you need to use your own link in the future to get credit for the refferal. Otherwise, there is no way for us to know that it was you that reffered the new user.
When you do get a refferal though, they sometimes do take a little longer to go through than other points.
What I have found about refferals, is that they dont show up until the person you reffered uses they're account. I gave one to somebody I knew from a game, it didn't show up until a couples days later, after he told me that he had tried the site.