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
