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Re: Twitter Corrects Follower Counts: How Many Followers Did You Lose?

cbemerine — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:53:39 -0000

Personally I am not out to get "followers", so I do not care if someone follows me back or not. If I find one interesting tweet (and they are not selling something) I will follow them. When someone does not follow me back its okay, EXCEPT the twitter following / follower limits. Now all of a sudden I have to go back and delete people who are not following me back just so I can follow a few more interesting people. Yet I followed those people because I thought they were interesting. I simply do not like that. So I will get one of those automated "if you are not following me" I will drop you tools and C'est la vie.

When you are about to lose 800 - 900 following in one fell swoop, losing 10 or so following / followers does not seem to matter as much.

I basically lose 5 - 15 followers each time twitter makes an adjustment, which really hits me now that I am hitting the first 2,000 follower / following limitation.

Does make me wonder how many others are simply losing followers because they are not following back.

Re: Twitter Corrects Follower Counts: How Many Followers Did You Lose?

LoriRuff — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:43:07 -0000

Not sure if I like the change, I think better followers but it's a bit disconcerting to watch your numbers go up and down by several hundred a day! three days in a row now... it's like watching a tennis match!

Re: Twitter Corrects Follower Counts: How Many Followers Did You Lose?

Captain Jack — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:21:22 -0000

I had a loss about 3,000 out of 13,000 on July 25th. It took me a month to get back to normal. It was a real bummer for me for it was also my birthday. That day turned out rather lame. My dinner resvervations were misplaced. I was hit by a SUV when I walk across the street. It was at slow speed, so no injuries.
I didn't feel I had a lot of spammers on my account for I rarely got any messages. Now I get 8 times more spam since that day. Oh well I guess that the way the tweet goes......

Re: Twitter Corrects Follower Counts: How Many Followers Did You Lose?

Gregory — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:22:23 -0000

I was up to around 225, now I'm down to 215.

Re: Twitter Corrects Follower Counts: How Many Followers Did You Lose?

moses — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:36:08 -0000

I went through the task myself because I kept getting people who wanted to hawk their wares and naked bodies to me and some in compromising positions. I resented it because if I wanted to have sex with someone I know where to go. So even when they sign up I let them hang there until there are enough of them to purge. So that it does not stretch out. Maybe I should do it immediately but that requires a different sort of vigilance. I was up in the 2K range and brought it down to 1k and now it hovers around 1300- But it is all quality tweeters as opposed to BS.

Re: Twitter Corrects Follower Counts: How Many Followers Did You Lose?

shyla — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:41:55 -0000

i didn't LOSE any followers...
it's easy for me because i only have 13 followers, and my follower count said 21, so i knew it wasn't right. now i still have 13 followers, and after the Big Correction, it says i have 16, so it's still not right unless thoser are somehow invisible followers (which doesn't seem right).

why are people disappointed about "losing" followers, when you can't lose what you didn't have? does the number make you feel better, even if it's wrong?

Re: Twitter Corrects Follower Counts: How Many Followers Did You Lose?

shyla — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:41:13 -0000

why are people disappointed about "losing" followers, when you can't lose what you didn't have? does the number make you feel better, even if it's wrong?

Re: Twitter Corrects Follower Counts: How Many Followers Did You Lose?

Elley — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:40:22 -0000

I haven't lost any followers, but then I block any spammy followers as soon as they pop up. The only people I allow to follow me are people I legitimately know. All the spam followering is really annoying, and I'm glad Twitter finally seems to be doing something about it.

There're enough issues with Twitter's site and an overload of users/traffic without adding hundreds of spam accounts and thousands of spammy messages into the mix.

Re: Twitter Corrects Follower Counts: How Many Followers Did You Lose?

Terrorvinni — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:41:23 -0000

Aha that explains why i lost 27 follower 90 -> 63

Re: Twitter Corrects Follower Counts: How Many Followers Did You Lose?

Matthew Lowery — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:36:17 -0000

What's weird is that I can see people following me that I'm not. IT still says 63following and 63followers.

Re: Twitter Corrects Follower Counts: How Many Followers Did You Lose?

mjmallows — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:27:49 -0000

Less is More! I don't mind how many followers I have, although I actively seek people I'm interested in to follow.

However, since the change, altho it could be merely coincidental, I have been unable to follow anyone!

Oh, well. Go well.

Re: Twitter Corrects Follower Counts: How Many Followers Did You Lose?

Jen — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:54:17 -0000

I lost about 20 followers the other night and just noticed I've lost another 10 tonight. If it's those spammy robot followers then bring it on. I hate them. I usually try to block them as soon as I notice them following but I guess some of them might not appear as obvious spammers, in which case I'd probably just leave them.
I really only want genuine followers, even if that means only a few!

Re: Twitter Corrects Follower Counts: How Many Followers Did You Lose?

Carol Ann Wiley — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:10:50 -0000

I lost a little over 100, but I am supposing that they are primarily spam accounts and people I have stopped following who are doing the same back with me. Since I have felt that having so many people sending messages all the time gets to be too overwhelming and impossible to catch all the messages from the ones I want. I just got TweetDeck; so I hope to be able to do a better job of organizing. So for me, I don't see this move by Twitter to be a bad thing.

Re: Twitter Corrects Follower Counts: How Many Followers Did You Lose?

Soph — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:39:49 -0000

I lost more than 100 followers.

Re: Twitter Corrects Follower Counts: How Many Followers Did You Lose?

Soph — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:38:15 -0000

I lost more than 100 followers.

Re: Twitter Corrects Follower Counts: How Many Followers Did You Lose?

WineWonkette — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:23:47 -0000

I lost about 50 from when I checked at 10 am to checking back in at 4 pm today.

Re: Twitter Corrects Follower Counts: How Many Followers Did You Lose?

Dylan — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:07:45 -0000

I lost around 150 followers in 24hrs.
And im still losing 1 or 2 of them every time i refresh.
Not happy.

Re: Twitter Corrects Follower Counts: How Many Followers Did You Lose?

Dylan — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:06:24 -0000

I lost around 150 followers in 24hrs.
And im still losing 1 or 2 of them every time i refresh.
Not happy.

Re: Twitter Corrects Follower Counts: How Many Followers Did You Lose?

Polly — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:22:49 -0000

Lost everything 0 followed / 0 following. Am pissed off.

Re: Twitter Corrects Follower Counts: How Many Followers Did You Lose?

Jerzi — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:37:49 -0000

I lost about 400+ followers. It was a shock but doesnt really mean much. I mean its not like they spoke. haha. but it was exciting to have over 1100 followers. I thought ppl liked what i had to say, i mean apparently with 700+ they must but 1100 is much more.. tehhehe - follow me: msjerzi

Re: Twitter Corrects Follower Counts: How Many Followers Did You Lose?

Rebecca Armendariz — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:49:35 -0000

I've lost over 100 followers. Really annoying. And, now I'm at the point where I cannot add any more followers until I gain them back. Darn that threshold. Feel free to follow me at @rarmendariz! Would love to actually be able to follow folks I digg again...

-Becky

Re: Twitter Corrects Follower Counts: How Many Followers Did You Lose?

Selina Ash — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:13:59 -0000

It doesn't matter if it is spammy accounts or not. We have to decide and filter them. I lost all my followers overnight. This is not very nice. I have been corresponding with them.

Re: Twitter Corrects Follower Counts: How Many Followers Did You Lose?

Dee — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:49:45 -0000

I just lost all my followers! How did this happen?

Re: Twitter Corrects Follower Counts: How Many Followers Did You Lose?

wow. — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:50:04 -0000

yeah. i lost like 301 followers :(

Re: Twitter Corrects Follower Counts: How Many Followers Did You Lose?

Mr. — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:22:33 -0000

lost every single one.. 260 to 0...

noice