Friendly fire or bigger oops?

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8 commentsThursday, July 24, 2008

Twitter Bug Torches Follower Lists

Friendly fire or bigger oops?

7 Comments

By baseball apparel (WPN reader) - Thu, 09/25/2008 - 10:51

Great article

Thanks for the new info.

By swanki gifts (WPN reader) - Sun, 09/07/2008 - 13:10

Great information

Great article jason

By Shelly Borrell (WPN reader) - Sun, 07/27/2008 - 17:06

I'm fairly new to Twitter and just started to follow people. It would be a bummer to lose followers if much effort was put into obtaining them. It's scary how much business is reliant on electronic technology. If we write down our follower's names, we'll be able to find them again. Or maybe that's a little too old fashioned?

Shelly Borrell, http://www.ineedtext.com/

By eldon (WPN reader) - Thu, 07/24/2008 - 12:58

http://www.readwriteweb.com/a

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/new_twitter_anti-spam_bot_causes_chaos.php

By eldon (WPN reader) - Thu, 07/24/2008 - 12:49

i've seen a similar bug in

i've seen a similar bug in facebook actually....just noticed it this morning.....sometimes my friends list shows 73 n sometimes 68....what's that all about??

By Jason Lee Miller (WPN reader) - Thu, 07/24/2008 - 11:29

Andrew Baron's response

Baron responded a bit too late for publishing but I thought his email was interesting. He's uncertain about follower value on Twitter, especially if a spammer; then again, like some other A-listers (Scoble for example), Twitter is soooo 2007. Here's what he had to say:

"Value? If they are all spammers or people who added me so I would add them, then they are valueless so perhaps if Twitter did flush them out, the new numbers are better not worse for reflecting actual, real value.

"But I haven't really been using Twiiter or trying to grow my account there, Ive migrated over to Friendfeed and just use Twitter as a legacy platform to communicate with the behind-the-times-people. :D

By Roger D (WPN reader) - Thu, 07/24/2008 - 11:04