I have noticed this as well. But I thought I was that uninteresting since I do not tweet regularly enough for some to justify their following me. Thanks for bringing this to light.
On Aug 14, 8:57 am, Damon Clinkscales <sca...@pobox.com> wrote: > FWIW, I've heard several people say that the 'who to follow' feature > exposed people to them that they thought they were already following. > > /damon > --http://twitter.com/damonhttp://blog.damonc.com > > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 2:12 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky > > > > <zn...@borasky-research.net> wrote: > > That's not the symptom people are describing to me. It goes something like > > this: > > > Bob follows Carol. At a later date, Carol says, "Bob, when did you unfollow > > me? Did I piss you off or something?" Bob says, "But I didn't unfollow you." > > He then checks and sees that he is in fact no longer following Carol, and > > has to re-follow her. > > > I have too many friends saying this has happened for it to be a > > hallucination. The only thing I can recommend to them is to go into the > > Connections settings panel and revoke all the oAuth approvals and see if it > > stops happening. I think if we got a list of all the people who've had > > unfollows like this and cross-checked their oAuth approvals, we might find > > an app that's not being nice. That's the only mechanism I can think of that > > would do this. > > -- > > M. Edward (Ed) Borasky > >http://borasky-research.nethttp://twitter.com/znmeb > > > "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos > > > Quoting S <esg...@gmail.com>: > > >> I don't think it is 'random'. It most likely is removal of robot accounts. > >> Some script / human is identifying such spam accounts / fake accounts and > >> suspending them. > > >> Many people are getting frustrated by this, to see their followers number > >> reduce. > > >> ~*~ > > >> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:22 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky < > >> zn...@borasky-research.net> wrote: > > >>> I don't think this has happened to me, but a number of my friends and > >>> some > >>> well-known Twitter people have reported that Twitter is unfollowing > >>> people > >>> from their accounts on its own, apparently in some random fashion. I > >>> don't > >>> have any more detail than that, or I'd file an issue. But I've heard it > >>> from > >>> so many people that I wanted to bring it up here and see if this triggers > >>> any thoughts in the developer community or at Twitter. > >>> -- > >>> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky > >>>http://borasky-research.nethttp://twitter.com/znmeb > > >>> "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul > >>> Erdos
