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Re: Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish

damian — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:25:20 -0000

Not really significant I delete spam followers straight away

Re: Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish

For me to know :) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:30:04 -0000

Good job, Twitter. At least they're doing SOMETHING about the spammers.

Re: Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish

Name — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:47:09 -0000

i lost 12 in a day... i just started 2 wks ago and thought i was diong pretty good with my 350 folloewers... bleh blehoh wellll

c'est la vie :-)

Re: Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish

Jason — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:20:44 -0000

why has it been so difficult for people to simply block spammers? obviously people want as many followers as possible even if they're not real. Social networking doesn't reveal the way people really are, it only reveals how people want to be seen...and twitter has revealed how false people can be.

Re: Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish

Jason — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:19:55 -0000

Re: Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish

hilska — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:56:08 -0000

That,s a very hopeful question of you, but can't help you at the moment, because i still don't have the answers! Maybe the only possible answer i have, that Twitter have difficulties with the data/storage and try to find solutions,through cleaning the different lists of followers.
Many people has maybe to much spam in their lists and disturb the storage!
That,s my analyses at the moment!!

Re: Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish

Guest — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:55:50 -0000

yes i have alot of missing Follower: www.twitter.com/music47ell
i hope you can help me
thank you

Re: Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish

Valerie — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:00:09 -0000

ok, i've noticed that at least 10 of my followers r gone randomly in just like, a day or maybe even hours! wowza!

Re: Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish

pandi merdeka — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:15:48 -0000

wow... fortunately there is no big chance on my twitter account ... hope it will not change..

Re: Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish

BrACY M WILSON — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:21:46 -0000

by the way, everybody on my following list couldn't have been spammers. Because I follow myself from my personal twitter and my brother and friends follow me. Anyone have any ideas?

Re: Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish

BrACY M WILSON — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:20:22 -0000

I lost 54 followers today. I'm down to zero. And I have like more than 50 that have started following me just in the last 3 days. I should have over 100. On Saturday, I had 68. I just started twittering this handle on Thursday. I'm extremely frustrated. What did I do wrong? What happen? I am writing about charter schools and following people who talk about charter schools.

I received an email at 6:55 saying someone was following me. What can i do? This doesn't make sense. I'm floored.

Re: Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish

3reezy — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:34:41 -0000

i reject the spammers and all of my followers have disappeared

Re: Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish

Kimberly Garcia — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:54:05 -0000

I delete and block the losers as they add me!

Re: Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish

destiny1 — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:40:45 -0000

I haven't lost any and I've got plenty of spammers. People that every few hours tweet the same crap about some get rich quick scheme down to the url and amount or whatever the latest way to up your followers by the hundreds - for free! - is. Fortunately, I've missed most of the porn bots.

Re: Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish

Alan — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:12:47 -0000

I logged into Twitter today and noticed that my my follower count is 0! It was at 400 or so yesterday. Why would every single follower disappear?

Re: Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish

Leah — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:53:32 -0000

Keep getting emails that I have followers then I go to check on my followers page. Nada. WTH? This is really discouraging! I am new to twitter so I thought maybe I was doing something wrong but apparently not? Legit followers getting dropped! Not spam! And apparently I have been dropped as a follower of many accts?

Re: Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish

milenaregos — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:35:10 -0000

Thank you for this post. I was wondering why my followers dropped drastically. I thought it was my tweets causing it. This makes perfect sense.

Re: Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish

Jaime Lyerly — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:00:38 -0000

I lost about 70 followers. I usually go through and block spammers when I find them. I also block anyone who's top tweet is something like "I got more followers in one day using this site." This means to me that they don't really want follow me but have me follow them.

I try to keep my twitter limited to who I am looking to connect with - Artists! But it is so hard to figure out who is spam or a real follower.

Thanks to Mashable for posting this message. At least it makes sense now!

Jaime Lyerly
http://twitter.com/jaimelyerly

Re: Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish

David — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:31:50 -0000

I've lost followers on my personal account: http://twitter.com/davidmbi... and several websites: http://twitter.com/theanime...

Re: Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish

Faustiesblog — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:44:29 -0000

I've lost a few followers but I'm glad Twitter is cleaning up. The whole point of Twitter is to reach like-minded people. Spammers make that effort less worthwhile.

Re: Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish

Niklaus Gerber — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:18:33 -0000

I dropped from 131 to 90 - I was shocked but good to know what happened.

Re: Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish

Sonja Woodman — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:11:48 -0000

I have recently had sordid followers suddenly added to my followers list where I did not get the email alert that they are following me. Obviously when I look and see that I am being invited by weirdos to weird urls -- I block them. I was enjoying using twitter but the appearance of these 'spammers' on my following list without my prior knowledge list is disconcerting. Anything Twitter can do to make it difficult for these spammers I applaud and support.

Re: Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish

David Smith — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:24:59 -0000

I did notice a 10% drop in my followers. However, I'm new and did not have a very large follower count at the time (around 100). Was this a one-time purge, are is it a new regular practice? Also, the phrase "Twitter Spammer" can be defined differently depending on who is making the definition. What is your definition of a "Twitter Spammer" and, more importantly, what specific rules are you putting into your programming to purge Twitter Spammers? If you're going to be dropping people off of my list, I'd like to know the criteria you're using. Thanks!

Re: Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish

David Smith — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:24:09 -0000

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David Smith — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:22:34 -0000