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A comment on the discussion "Some nasty techniques used by Twitter Spammers" in Twitter:

Ok, so had you already deleted them? I still think you were just confused and saw his tweets in your twitter.com/home page which is like an rss feed of all your friends combined into one page, and assumed he was somehow posting to your account, which I really doubt. Unless you have some links to _your_ tweets that were _not_ posted by you, I have no reason to believe your account was hijacked to link to someone elses blog. – Thomas, on October 07, 2008 20:34

Scott Lansing replied on October 07, 2008 20:25 to the discussion "Some nasty techniques used by Twitter Spammers" in Twitter:

My account name is: slansing777

I'm not sure if there's a simple way to explain this, but here I go:

Seth Godin was using my account to post updates to his blog. My followers on Twitter assumed I was a huge Seth Godin fan because it looked like I was Tweeting about his posts to get them to go to his blog. Coworkers have been coming up to me saying: "I didn't know you were so into Seth Godin. You're Tweeting about him at 3 o'clock in the morning." While Godin's content is interesting, I wouldn't interrupt my sleep cycle to rebroadcast his blog entries.

I can't remember if I supplied my password when signing up for what I thought was to follow Seth Godin on Twitter. If I did, I assumed I was signing into Twitter in order to follow someone, which is what tends to happen if I receive an e-mail from a new follower.

Anything that links my Twitter account to Seth Godin's blog was not actually posted by me...and there are 12 (I counted using @TweetStats).

I e-mailed Godin about this and received an e-mail regarding my problem. He provided me with this link: http://feedblitz.blogspot.com/2008/09... to a site called FeedBlitz. I went to the site and now I am free of my Seth Godin Tweets.

Thanks for your reply. I'm just getting into the social media scene so I apologize if I haven't used the correct terminology.

Regards,

Scott Lansing
scottlansing777@gmail.com
Twitter: slansing777

A comment on the discussion "Some nasty techniques used by Twitter Spammers" in Twitter:

You're going to need to be more specific. If he's somehow posting on your account, did you give him your login? What's your account name so I (not a twitter employee, just another customer) can look? – Thomas, on October 07, 2008 20:14

Scott Lansing replied on October 07, 2008 20:11 to the discussion "Some nasty techniques used by Twitter Spammers" in Twitter:

What about people using your Twitter account as a platform to promote their blog/Web site? I recently signed up to follow Seth Godin's blog on Twitter, or so I thought. Of course I could have missed any alleged fine print, but I thought I was following him and would receive tweets from him. Turned out that he used my Twitter account to make it look like I was a huge fan of his blog, posting a blurb and a link every time he had a new blog entry. He ended up using my account 12 times to link directly to his blog. I asked @problogger about this and he mentioned I should take it up with people at Twitter. Any thoughts?

Bill Barol replied on September 30, 2008 23:45 to the question "Latest tweet truncated on home page under new UI... Why?" in Twitter:

Oh, for Pete's sake. OK, here:

http://is.gd/3lUP

If anybody reading this has been as annoyed by this new "feature" as I have, please go to the new thread and weigh in. Thanks.

crystal replied on September 30, 2008 23:36 to the question "Latest tweet truncated on home page under new UI... Why?" in Twitter:

Hey guys,

As it turns out, the real bug was causing the characters to display incorrectly in status updates and profile pages. This was also breaking links and causing improper truncation of statuses. We fixed that.

The "latest" status updates being truncated, however, is something we will continue to do on purpose, and is not a bug. The truncation of the status in the "latest" field is correct. My apologies for the miscommunication on that point.

If you hate it, I'd suggest starting another thread in the form of a feature request so I can can point the rest of the team to it as evidence that a truncated "latest" status is not a hit. On the other hand, if it doesn't bother you, you can consider the matter closed.

Thanks!
Crystal

Bill Barol replied on September 30, 2008 16:54 to the question "Latest tweet truncated on home page under new UI... Why?" in Twitter:

Any progress on this issue?

Bill Barol replied on September 25, 2008 23:03 to the question "Latest tweet truncated on home page under new UI... Why?" in Twitter:

Nope. No change for me. Still seeing the issue in both Safari and Firefox.

crystal replied on September 25, 2008 22:44 to the question "Latest tweet truncated on home page under new UI... Why?" in Twitter:

Hi guys, it should be fixed for real this time. If you're still having problems, let us know.

crystal replied on September 25, 2008 18:55 to the question "Latest tweet truncated on home page under new UI... Why?" in Twitter:

Drat.

It's not fixed after all. However, we've identified the problem and are working on fixing it today. I'll post again with an update when it's fixed, should be soon.

Thanks!

Chris Thomson replied on September 25, 2008 00:05 to the question "Latest tweet truncated on home page under new UI... Why?" in Twitter:

This tweet doesn't exceed 140 characters, and displays perfectly fine over the Twitter API and on the web interface (it's not a victim of the " & bug). Once clicked:



username: chris24.
browser/os: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1

Jason DeBoer-Moran replied on September 24, 2008 23:26 to the question "Latest tweet truncated on home page under new UI... Why?" in Twitter:

This is still occurring for me:
UserName: newcoventry
Browser: Chrome 0.2.149.30 Official Build 2200,
OS: Windows XP SP3
Screenshot:

A comment on the question "Latest tweet truncated on home page under new UI... Why?" in Twitter:

Me either. username billbarol; mac 10.5.5; safari 3.1.2 and firefox 3.0.1. truncated tweet shows 2 lines + ellipses, and shortened timestamp ("about 4 hours ago"); if I click on the tweet it opens out to full length and verbose timestamp ("about 4 hours ago from web"). – Bill Barol, on September 24, 2008 23:17

A comment on the question "Latest tweet truncated on home page under new UI... Why?" in Twitter:

It hasn't been cured for me yet, I'm afraid! User: Eridanus; OS: Windows XP; Browsers: Chrome & Firefox 2.0.x. Thanks, crystal! – Eridanus, on September 24, 2008 23:02

crystal replied on September 24, 2008 22:49 to the question "Latest tweet truncated on home page under new UI... Why?" in Twitter:

As of this afternoon, this bug should be fixed: the full update should now show on your home and profile pages. If you're still having this problem, please let us know, and include your:

1. user name
2. browser and operating system

Thanks!

crystal replied on September 24, 2008 22:38 to the question "Latest tweet truncated on home page under new UI... Why?" in Twitter:

Having the "latest" update truncated is not intentional, we're working on fixing it.

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elizs replied on September 24, 2008 16:48 to the question "Latest tweet truncated on home page under new UI... Why?" in Twitter:

I too am seeing this in Firefox 3 on both my Mac at home and PC at work. Like Missy says, tweets under 140 characters are being truncated whenever someone uses quotation marks.

I retweeted @djroe: As reported by @Ihnatko, typing the character " now uses as many characters as typing the word QUOTE.

And I'm seeing this not only on my latest tweets, but on anyone in my timeline's tweets.

Please fix this bug!!

Brad replied on September 14, 2008 22:46 to the problem "Add Followers/Following metrics and Follow/Block buttons to New Follower e-mail" in Twitter:

Most of my followers are spam. This would be a nice feature and admission on Twitter's part.

A comment on the discussion "Some nasty techniques used by Twitter Spammers" in Twitter:

I believe this feature no longer works, because I've seen people try to make (legitimate) links to it to make following them easier and they don't work. – Thomas, on August 07, 2008 17:31