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David replied on June 02, 2008 19:28 to the problem "Not getting email when someone follows me" in Twitter:

Since spammers/twit-whores can do this, there's an obvious problem. If Twitter chooses to remain silent on the issue, that could do more harm than the current architecture issues. All the hardware and good design in the world won't help if the service is abused by spammers.

George replied on June 02, 2008 19:18 to the problem "Not getting email when someone follows me" in Twitter:

I also seem to have this problem when it's a followers who follow tons of people.

Jere Keys replied on June 02, 2008 18:09 to the problem "Not getting email when someone follows me" in Twitter:

This problem is still going on. I've checked my spam filters, I've double checked my settings, and I ALWAYS get notified when the person following me is a genuine friend or new acquaintence. I never get notified by email when the person adding me has more than about 500 people they are following.

A comment on the problem "Not getting email when someone follows me" in Twitter:

I do believe "they" have found out a way to follow and avoid the notification being sent. I get notices irregularly, and to the person, it's someone that I can see has an obvious reason for following. When I browse my followers list and see someone new, they are always folks who follow 1000's of people. Why the follower list has to be random is beyond me. – David, on May 23, 2008 21:09

exador23 replied on May 23, 2008 19:54 to the problem "Not getting email when someone follows me" in Twitter:

Oops. just replied elsewhere before noticing a more consolidated thread.

I am receiving e-mail notifications of followers, but only about 2-3 notifications for every 5 or so new followers by the main page count - thus discounting user error or spam filtering.

The random way followers show up on the web page makes it nigh impossible to figure out what's going on. a chronological listing, preferably w/o icons so more followers will fit on a page would help ~immensely~ (after all, for new followers I'm going to be checking their profile & see the icon there, and not showing icons should lower your server load) In fact, my front page says I have 87 followers, but only 86 show up on the follower pages (assuming each page really is 20 followers, or there isn't some time lag between being dropped & follower page updates)

I'm hoping no-one has figured out how to follow clandestinely or without receiving notification - and yes, I understand the ramifications of a "public" timeline. this isn't about paranoia.

portenkirchner replied on May 19, 2008 19:25 to the problem "Not getting email when someone follows me" in Twitter:

Same problem here. Seems that I am not getting any e-mail notifications anymore

David replied on May 12, 2008 01:07 to the problem "Not getting email when someone follows me" in Twitter:

I always get email alerts *unless* the new follower is a "Twitter Slut" - someone who's following tens of thousands of people. There's obviously a whole in the Twitter code that allows these people, generally spammers, to add you to the list of people they follow and bypass the email alert.

zybernav replied on May 06, 2008 14:49 to the problem "Not getting email when someone follows me" in Twitter:

Got the same problem.
- Didn't recieve any email notification about new followers
- Still get Direct message.
- Happened as I started losing my sms updates. (does it relate??)

A comment on the problem "Not getting email when someone follows me" in Twitter:

I believe this outage was fixed on April 18. See http://twitter.com/twitter_status/statuses/788614487 – mdy, on May 06, 2008 13:01

Zen_jewitch replied on May 06, 2008 12:53 to the problem "Not getting email when someone follows me" in Twitter:

I get email notice of DMs but not follows. It seems to be wide-spread and persistant. Any update from support?

amygeekgrl replied on April 13, 2008 02:28 to the problem "Not getting email when someone follows me" in Twitter:

not getting notifications of new followers or notifications of DMs. thanks!
amygeekgrl on twitter

ShannonNelson replied on April 13, 2008 00:57 to the problem "Not getting email when someone follows me" in Twitter:

I'm not getting notifications of new followers, but I am getting DM messages.

A comment on the problem "Not getting email when someone follows me" in Twitter:

Yes, it does seem to be a real problem. – mdy, on April 12, 2008 23:57

mdy replied on April 12, 2008 23:56 to the problem "Not getting email when someone follows me" in Twitter:

The last email I received from Twitter is dated April 11, 2008 (Fri) 3:36pm US Pacific Time (just noting it here fwiw, if it can aid in any troubleshooting).

bblboy54 replied on April 12, 2008 23:41 to the problem "Not getting email when someone follows me" in Twitter:

I just started having this problem.... but its intermittent on the followers. I am, however, no longer getting direct messages to email at all..... this started today.

A comment on the problem "Not getting email when someone follows me" in Twitter:

Actually, this seems to be a widespread thing - no one I've spoken with about it has received email notifications from Twitter since around 4pm pacific yesterday. – GeekMommy, on April 12, 2008 21:50

Eric Suesz marked one of ChrissMari's replies in Twitter as useful. ChrissMari replied to the idea "Tools to track what's being tracked?".

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suzume234 replied on April 11, 2008 18:44 to the idea "Tools to track what's being tracked?" in Twitter:

As to your point, I think it sounds interesting, other websites have things like this with a cluster of words, the bigger ones being the more popular. ^_^

But you're right... that would be terribly annoying.

mdy replied on April 11, 2008 12:22 to the problem "Not getting email when someone follows me" in Twitter:

Is it possible that the Twitter email notifications are getting caught in your email account's spam filters?

Would you have any way to check if this could be the case?