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Re: Twitter Forgets Who You’re Following

Mika — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:40:19 -0000

My following in my profile sidebar is wrong, but my homepage shows the correct one.
My time line works fine and my following and followers count is correct.

28 I followed but not appearing in my profile sidebar: @TIME, @eonline, @taylorswift13, @theiceangel, @twtfm, @MariahCarey, @net_blogging, @shanedawson, @AngryAngMo, @Ohsoficklexxx, @theSexyBitch, @TweetSG, @gossipgirl, @lustfulyou, @babygirlparis, @britneyspears, @Forever21_tweet, @Borat, @katyperry, @ElvaHsiao, @ladygaga, @JessicaSimpson, @ChannelNewsAsia, @Blogger, @NuffnangSG, @cheryllty, @JoannePeh, @Xiaxue

2 I unfollowed but appearing in my profile sidebar: @TheXiaxue, @DawnYang1

I'm on Firefox 3.0.12, Windows Vista.

THANK YOU!

Re: Twitter Forgets Who You’re Following

Mika — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:48:56 -0000

I had a different problem.
My home page is find, I don't see weird messages from people I don't follow.
But, my following on my profile had only 3 pictures!
But, the amount on the following is right.
I tried follow and unfollow, but it doesn't work. How to solve this problem?

Re: Twitter Forgets Who You’re Following

MzRocknRoll — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:59:24 -0000

I too have followers that have disappeared. I mean they are gone. Poof. Some kind of virus? I dont know but twitter needs to fix it now.

Re: Twitter Forgets Who You’re Following

wanida — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:54:07 -0000

I have that very problem. regular tweets appear in my stream from someone I don't follow. Their profile is locked and, if I attempt to unfollow, twitter won't allow me. I have tweeted @spam but have had no kind of feedback. Really annoying!

Re: Twitter Forgets Who You’re Following

Aislinn O'Connor — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:11:34 -0000

Same here, and it's been going on for quite a while now - TweetLater's Vet New Followers and FriendorFollow give me different totals, and neither matches up with either the number of e-mail alerts I get about new followers or the figures Twitter shows me. Also, even though I've followed someone, if I check back with their account later it shows me NOT following them. This is going to lose people a whole lot of goodwill as well as followers, and does nothing for confidence in Twitter's reliability.

Re: Twitter Forgets Who You’re Following

Busted Keys — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:47:24 -0000

i can't say i've had this issue...but when i get more followers we'll see what happens!

Re: Twitter Forgets Who You’re Following

Terri Robin Vernon — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:17:09 -0000

I've been noticing weirdness with my follower/following lists for months. I just assumed that Twitter is a work in progress, and that they will get things straightened out.

Re: Twitter Forgets Who You’re Following

Laurie Ashton Farook — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:43:47 -0000

This has been happening to me for months, and no, following and then unfollowing has not helped. Neither has blocking, unblocking, blocking again. One tweeter in particular has been more annoying than the others, although I've encountered at least a half dozen accounts this happens with. None have been spam, just users I have zero interest in following.

And I have *never* used my Twitter credentials on another site. I'm paranoid. :)

Re: Twitter Forgets Who You’re Following

Donagh Mc Sweeney — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:57:52 -0000

The guys behind Twitter need to do some serious work to get all the bugs and kinks ironed out. There isn't a day goes by that I don't read about a new bug. Strange how a site that is so successful can have so many publically known issues. I know it comes hand in hand with the terratory of develpment though but I would image that they have a large team of employees that should be on top of this. Seems they are struggling to keep up with the pace of Twitters rapid growth.

Still though this won't deter me from using it. Working on integrating Twitter into http://loopthing.com at the moment.

Re: Twitter Forgets Who You’re Following

Richard — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:31:11 -0000

Something strange is going on! Suddenly, 70 followers have disappeared! The followers are still there when I go to check, but the numbers; the numbers say they are not there ... ? What's happening?

Re: Twitter Forgets Who You’re Following

Alezzia Ferreira — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:17:17 -0000

something similar happens to me, I am supposedly following asthon but I do not receive his tweets for a couple of weeks now , but I.m still see him on my following list and I do not think that he went to all the trouble to look for me in a sea of the thousands and thousands of followers and then decided to block me... then I was looking for a friend in my followers list and nada she wasnt showin up and when I was able to find her I noticed that we were following each other like it was suppossed to be since the begining ....still she doesnt show on my followers/following lists

Re: Twitter Forgets Who You’re Following

Kevin Olson — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:13:35 -0000

Sorry, its Efusjon no i

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Re: Twitter Forgets Who You’re Following

Kevin Olson — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:07:33 -0000

Adam, do you know about the Facebook/Efusion merge on 7/22/09???

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Re: Twitter Forgets Who You’re Following

lisbethwest — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:20:07 -0000

Now they can't seem to get the difference between my two accounts, one for lighter musings and one for more political infornation. It sure is screwing up my political detractors, who have now defined my as the ugly face of soclialism...wait! that was supposed to be under the portrait that looks more like a NYTimes editorial columnist, not the warm fuzzy one here! Sorry Eddie Burke, your @talkradio.. bleep is having a helluva time figuring out who to hate and who to court to come battle it out with you on your show.

Re: Twitter Forgets Who You’re Following

few — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:16:50 -0000

I dont know abt this problem - but a big problems for about 2 months now is PEOPLE not showing up in a SEARCH - they (and that includes me) are on TWITTER - -but if you try to search , you do not appear - - but you have been posting away like an idiot....lasttime I checkd - complaints were in the thousands and no fix in site

Re: Twitter Forgets Who You’re Following

Laura Brown — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:15:31 -0000

Sorry for the double comment. I went away and made coffee while the comment was still loading. I don't know why it kept trying to finish and didn't. I came back and it was still loading. So I refreshed the page and then just went back to the original post only to see it posted twice.

Re: Twitter Forgets Who You’re Following

Laura Brown — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:12:08 -0000

I've had two that I noticed in the last three days. I don't follow people just to have followers so I do notice spammers who post to my account without being on my account. Both were for porn sites so I'm pretty peeved about it. I blocked them both and hope this means they will have some feedback from Twitter, eventually. Not likely but it is something I can do with evil intent.

Re: Twitter Forgets Who You’re Following

Laura Brown — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:06:49 -0000

Re: Twitter Forgets Who You’re Following

paramendra — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:50:09 -0000

I think the follow then unfollow fix is innovative.
http://technbiz.blogspot.co...

Re: Twitter Forgets Who You’re Following

Joe — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:01:10 -0000

havent noticed anything

Re: Twitter Forgets Who You’re Following

Wulffy — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:52:04 -0000

There's another similar issue. Twitter really forgets who you're following. You follow Tweeters and wait maybe 10 seconds. Then you update the page and you do not follow them. At your account the number of "following" does not change. I got that for the second time now. A friend of mine for the third time. It takes minutes before it starts working again. None of those followed accounts blocked us.

Re: Twitter Forgets Who You’re Following

sukhjit — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:38:55 -0000

I noticed people I follow are unfollowed for months now. It's pretty much a disaster when you're using twitter for community building. I've had friends/people I follow point out that I'm not following them anymore... most are understanding when I explain... but it's still awkward. I recently started to pay better attention the people following me stack via PeopleBrowsr. That way, I just refollow if I notice that they've been unfollowed. Can't wait for this bug to be fixed! Thanks for the article BTW.

Re: Twitter Forgets Who You’re Following

cheeky_geeky — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:23:00 -0000

This has been happening for months.

Re: Twitter Forgets Who You’re Following

onakiser — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:22:48 -0000

That explains the random tweet I got the other day from someone I'd never heard of. I just unfollowed him, and haven't had it happen again.

Re: Twitter Forgets Who You’re Following

Owen — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:20:07 -0000

I haven't seen other tweeps tweets in my feed but I have noticed that the Follower counts don't match the number of people in the follower list (> 50% discrepancy). Not sure if it's possible, but Twitter should BAN auto-follows!