Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Someone managed to get me to follow them w/o my intervention (@johnnymatosj)

2010-05-10 Thread John Meyer
On 5/10/2010 3:48 PM, John Kalucki wrote: That's unlikely. Userstreams will tell you this in real time, FWIW. And you could always poll the REST API against a trusted source. But, the workaround is easy enough -- just unfollow the offending account... -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki I

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Someone managed to get me to follow them w/o my intervention (@johnnymatosj)

2010-05-10 Thread John Meyer
On 5/10/2010 3:48 PM, John Kalucki wrote: That's unlikely. Userstreams will tell you this in real time, FWIW. And you could always poll the REST API against a trusted source. But, the workaround is easy enough -- just unfollow the offending account... -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki I

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Someone managed to get me to follow them w/o my intervention (@johnnymatosj)

2010-05-10 Thread John Kalucki
That's unlikely. Userstreams will tell you this in real time, FWIW. And you could always poll the REST API against a trusted source. But, the workaround is easy enough -- just unfollow the offending account... -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Mon, May 1

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Someone managed to get me to follow them w/o my intervention (@johnnymatosj)

2010-05-10 Thread John Meyer
On 5/10/2010 2:31 PM, jmathai wrote: So, I knew I wasn't hallucinating. Looks like this dude knew of the 'accept username' bug before me :). Yep. On a suggestion request (for Twitter, not necessarily the API) would it be possible to e-mail people indicating that they have started following

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Someone managed to get me to follow them w/o my intervention (@johnnymatosj)

2010-03-19 Thread Abraham Williams
He had just over 1000 followers a few days ago as well: http://twitterholic.com/johnnymatosj On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 18:08, @kemeny_x wrote: > Apparently he started tweeting only a few day ago and has over 10,000 > followers... others are noticing also: > http://twitter.com/franklinpolanco/statu

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Someone managed to get me to follow them w/o my intervention (@johnnymatosj)

2010-03-18 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Perhaps he's someone famous in another service and simply asked people to follow him. Or maybe he has a mailing list with thousands of subscribers and simply said, "Hey, I'm on Twitter - follow me at ..." There's nothing wrong with asking people to follow you! -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky boras

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Someone managed to get me to follow them w/o my intervention (@johnnymatosj)

2010-03-18 Thread Andrew Badera
Ask them? I mean, this IS Twitter, right? ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:31 PM, jmathai wrote: > > > On Mar 18, 2:14 pm, TJ Luoma wrote: