1. As a result of the "Who to follow" field, I'm now gaining followers
fairly rapidly. So rapidly, in fact, that I can't follow all or even
most of them back without hitting some limit. I'm not sure how you'd
adjust that, but there's a subtle bug in the way it's being handled.
Suppose user J follows me. I go into the "Followers" list, see that J
has followed me. I go look at J's profile. OK - J's cool, I want to
follow him. So I press the big "Follow" button with the green plus
sign. Twitter sez "Could not follow user: You are unable to follow
more people at this time. Learn more here." But guess what? The button
changes to "Blocked!" I have to click the "Undo" link.
It looks like there are three states, and the system is cycling through them:
a. Not following
b. Following
c. Blocked
It can't change from "Not following" to "following" because of the
limit, so it cycles to the next state, which is "Blocked".
2. There's some kind of Javascript / CSS issue with the left panel in
Chrome / Chromium 7. Everything is cool in Firefox 3.6, and I haven't
tried older versions of Chrome. I'm not quite sure how to reproduce
this reliably yet, but sometimes, when I'm following a trail into the
right panel, when I have the mouse in the right panel, the left panel
goes completely black. If I move the mouse back into the left panel,
it comes back, but slowly - like it's running some kind of intensive
Javascript to repaint or making a bunch of API calls to refill a
buffer. I'm a total Javascript / CSS / DOM ignoramus, so if someone
has some clues as to how I can diagnose this in the Chrome / Chromium
debugger, let me know.
3. A related phenomenon - I went to @scobleizer and opened up a tweet.
When I moused back into the *left* panel, the left one went blank,
exposing the background! But when I mouse back into the right panel,
the left one came back rapidly. Again, this is on Chrome / Chromium.
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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
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