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cali_sunrise replied on August 18, 2008 23:16 to the problem "Follow attempt failed with "Something went wrong!"" in Twitter:

I am having the same problem with several people (who have no reason to block me) and get that same "something went wrong etc." message every time. I would like a solution?

jadedcreative replied on August 18, 2008 23:08 to the problem "Follow attempt failed with "Something went wrong!"" in Twitter:

Wow. I am on here two days and everything seems like a problem! Like this whole site is a big beta test and we're the lab rats :(

jocelyn replied on August 09, 2008 17:33 to the problem "Follow attempt failed with "Something went wrong!"" in Twitter:

yeah i have the samee problem... and for some reason i can't chanqe my status or moond.. or can't look at my comments!!!

Jeff Johnson replied on July 23, 2008 20:00 to the problem "Follow attempt failed with "Something went wrong!"" in Twitter:

If I was blocked, shouldn't I get a different message?

I would hope the programmers didn't use "something went wrong. Please refresh" as the only message.

And I actually get it for everyone I try to follow. But most of the time refreshing shows that it worked.

A comment on the problem "Follow attempt failed with "Something went wrong!"" in Twitter:

Is there a chance that you've been blocked by MisterHijinx? That would be one other reason why you can't successfully follow him...? – mdy, on July 23, 2008 15:03

Jeff Johnson replied on July 23, 2008 14:11 to the problem "Follow attempt failed with "Something went wrong!"" in Twitter:

Tried IE firefox and safari. I don't think it is a browser issue. Maybe a database issue.
It seems like the database has MisterHijinx as locked but it is not telling my browser, so I don't get the lock image??????

hipsterdoofus replied on July 23, 2008 03:52 to the problem "Follow attempt failed with "Something went wrong!"" in Twitter:

I was having the same problem using the Flock browser, I would try and follow a particular person and received the error mentioned. Then I tried doing the same thing in Firefox and it went through okay.

Jeff Johnson replied on July 17, 2008 14:45 to the problem "Follow attempt failed with "Something went wrong!"" in Twitter:

Now I get the message everytime I try to follow MisterHijinx.

and once in a while I get
"MisterHijinx's privacy settings do not allow this action."

But not every time.

Is this a problem with my account or his?
I'm am starting to believe this has a browser security/cookie setting issue.

Barnstormed replied on July 08, 2008 17:02 to the problem "Follow attempt failed with "Something went wrong!"" in Twitter:

I get the error whenever i try to follow anybody. Ive had success 4 times out of about 50 attempts. Took at least 10 attempts to change my update aswell... I've been avoiding using this for ages and im so far not impressed...

Tom replied on July 03, 2008 17:01 to the problem "Follow attempt failed with "Something went wrong!"" in Twitter:

Me too! Good grief, come on Twitter!! This is ridiculous, you are going to botch job this whole thing because you can not keep things running.

I recommend plurk.com for everyone that is tired of twitter.

Trent Larson replied on July 03, 2008 16:05 to the problem "Follow attempt failed with "Something went wrong!"" in Twitter:

I'm still having this problem.

I did happen to see that Twitter is "over capacity" when I was clicking around, though that was inconsistent.

Tom replied on July 02, 2008 21:04 to the problem "Follow attempt failed with "Something went wrong!"" in Twitter:

Seems to be working for now.

Devans00 replied on July 02, 2008 19:40 to the problem "Follow attempt failed with "Something went wrong!"" in Twitter:

I saw the Twitter Status update "Update (10:16a): Clients like Twitterific are reporting success again. We’re watching the situation, but consider this issue resolved."

I tried adding people again and it worked. Looks like problem is solved for now. I recommend adding the Twitter Status to your RSS reader.
http://status.twitter.com/rss

Handsome Pete replied on July 02, 2008 18:41 to the problem "Follow attempt failed with "Something went wrong!"" in Twitter:

Fixed. Maybe. With some delays.

Handsome Pete replied on July 02, 2008 18:20 to the problem "Follow attempt failed with "Something went wrong!"" in Twitter:

I've been having this issue since Monday. At least the two times I've tried to add anyone.

Also affects my mobile Safari.

I'm still waiting for IM to come back online to sync to my Facebook. That's been over a month. It feels like.

mdy replied on July 02, 2008 18:08 to the problem "Follow attempt failed with "Something went wrong!"" in Twitter:

Quick update: I'm now able to follow the person that I wanted to follow earlier from both my accounts.

From the latest blogpost on the Twitter Status blog, it looks like the db problems have been fixed

mdy replied on July 02, 2008 17:28 to the problem "Follow attempt failed with "Something went wrong!"" in Twitter:

Yup, same here. I tried to follow someone today and got the 'something went wrong' error message. Tried following the same person using a second account and still got the error message.

Seems to be a fairly new problem because I was still getting 'you have a new follower' emails around 7 hours ago (though I must admit I haven't tried following someone new in a while).

I also noticed that @al3x just tweeted something about database failures around 10 mins ago. So I'm guessing we'll get an official status update soon.

yjsoon replied on July 02, 2008 16:16 to the problem "Follow attempt failed with "Something went wrong!"" in Twitter:

same problem on the web. also i tried following on mobile safari and it told me i was already following that person (tried with zeldman)

Bradley Mills replied on July 02, 2008 16:13 to the problem "Follow attempt failed with "Something went wrong!"" in Twitter:

I signed up today and I can't even follow CNNBRK, CNN Breaking News

Zian replied on July 02, 2008 14:42 to the problem "Follow attempt failed with "Something went wrong!"" in Twitter:

I've been having this problem for weeks now.