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David started following the problem "Twinkle Following Issue" in Tapulous.

A comment on the problem "Twinkle Following Issue" in Tapulous:

The follow feature isn't working. I even tried following twinkleking and it didn't work. I had to log in to the twitter web interface to add the follow. – David, on July 30, 2008 02:52

David started following the problem "You cannot click on @reply in a reply" in Tapulous.

David replied on July 20, 2008 21:08 to the question "twitter home page not wotking right" in Twitter:

Read the status page.
http://status.twitter.com/post/42925304

David started following the problem "My new profile picture isn't showing on other people's profiles after changing the old one." in Twitter.

David replied on July 18, 2008 14:47 to the problem "My new profile picture isn't showing on other people's profiles after changing the old one." in Twitter:

When will this be fixed? A month and Twitter ignores the problem.

David replied on July 11, 2008 19:44 to the problem "Not getting email when someone follows me" in Twitter:

Looks like notices are coming more frequently. I've gotten a few notices of new followers recently, all spammers. They always come right after I post an update. At least I can then block them.

Interestingly, Twitter is still doing nothing to block obvious abuse. The last follower I got was on someone who first posted less than an hour ago and was already following 4,111 people!

David replied on July 06, 2008 18:47 to the idea "Stop Twitter Spammers!" in Twitter:

Says mlanger: "And if I block notice of new followers, how can I promptly check them out to see if they're the kind of people I might want to follow in return?"

That's my point. If you elect to receive notices of new followers, Twitter will still refuse to send you notice if the follower is a suspected spammer. Twitter doesn't allow you to decide if you want to follow or block if the new follower is suspect. If Twitter suspects the person is a spammer, they hide it from you so you CAN'T easily find and block them. If the new follower doesn't appear to be a spammer, Twitter will send you the notice so you can check them out.

Spammer = Twitter blocks the notice to make it easy for the spammer to hide.

Legit = Twitter sends the notice to make is easy to check them out.

Hmmmm.

David replied on July 06, 2008 17:34 to the idea "Stop Twitter Spammers!" in Twitter:

Looked at another way, the more users Twitter attracts, the more venture capital that comes in. If Twitter blocks spammers, then they would significantly lower their user numbers. Remember, Twitter already has the policy of blocking the notice of new followers you requested if a spammer follows you so you are unable to know to block them.

David started following the idea "Stop Twitter Spammers!" in Twitter.

David asked a question in Twitter on July 05, 2008 22:57:

Facebook status no longer being updated

My Facebook status no longer being updated when with my Twitter status. It was working fine yesterday, and today it no longer works. Twitter app is marked to allow access to updates.

David started following the problem "twitter not updating facebook status" in Twitter.

David replied on June 29, 2008 20:55 to the question "Getting worse, not better" in Twitter:

The twitter blog even makes the false claim that replies are back.

http://blog.twitter.com/2008/06/repli...

David asked a question in Twitter on June 29, 2008 17:00:

Getting worse, not better

I was viewing my replies tab, and on refresh, they've all disappeared. Twitter gets more unreliable each day. In the past week I've had half a dozen posts simply vanish and never show up. I know of several DM's to me that never made it.

What's the point? Granted, Twitter is collecting venture $$, but it would seem sooner or later they have to actually IMPROVE the product. Right now Twitter's main activity is producing excuses for failed systems.

David replied on June 26, 2008 17:35 to the problem "not getting email with new followers" in Twitter:

You are not missing anything. Search this board and you will see that it it Twitter's policy to NOT notfify you when twitter-whores follow you. Those users are allowed to add followers with you being notified. Twitter claims it's a good thing.

David replied on June 14, 2008 02:40 to the question "Losing Followers" in Twitter:

My followers have been dropping too. However, Twitter makes it next to impossible to check your followers* I haven't bothered to look to see who's leaving.

* ie, easy for spammers to hide

David started following the question "First time caller. What's "retweeting" mean?" in Twitter.

David started following the question "First time caller. What's "retweeting" mean?" in Twitter.

David replied on June 09, 2008 15:12 to the question "missing followers and following list" in Twitter:

Found the answer on the twitter status blog
http://status.twitter.com/post/377330...

"Some elements of the sidebar temporarily disabled 41 minutes ago
We’ll be turning these back on later this afternoon.

Update: The replies, everyone and archive tabs have also been temporarily disabled and will be restored later this afternoon"

This really does not bode well for Twitter. They are obviously in way over their head and can't support the service they claim to offer. If they have to shut down the service every time there's a load what's the point of growing?

No one can rely on a service that is randomly turned off at the developer's whim.

David asked a question in Twitter on June 09, 2008 14:50:

missing followers and following list

Followers and Following list has disappeared from my Twitter home page.