Re: [twitter-dev] People randomly getting unfollowed?
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.net http://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos
Re: [twitter-dev] People randomly getting unfollowed?
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.net http://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.net http://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos
Re: [twitter-dev] People randomly getting unfollowed?
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/damon http://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.net http://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.net http://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos
[twitter-dev] People randomly getting unfollowed?
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.net http://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos
