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

yes, thanks Alex. Does this mean twitter is giving up on getsatisfaction? Do we need to start blogs to get twitter to pay attention to user concerns? – exador23, on June 05, 2008 21:38

exador23 replied on June 03, 2008 23:22 to the problem "Not getting email when someone follows me" in Twitter:

It sure would be nice to at least get acknowledgment from Twitter that a whole bunch of follow whores or stalker bots have found a way around their notification procedure, and the problem is being looked into.

Yesterday I discovered a follower who's following 111,000 people. Maybe dealing with these abusers of the system might be more productive than suggesting legitimate users with lots of followers are stressing out the whale.

exador23 reported a problem in Yahoo! on June 03, 2008 09:25:

Blocked out of important e-mail account

I work with a non-profit who has had a Yahoo Mail account for over 10 years. Recently (perhaps in conjunction with the changes to classic?), they have been locked out of this account.

My understanding is they have been unsuccessful in their dealings with Yahoo tech support because they don't remember one of the 4 question/response queries. I am hoping a Yahoo employee is listening who might be able to rectify the situation.

This particular e-mail account represents about 20hours/week of our non-profit's dealings over the past 10 years. Without it, at least 1/3 of our community is cut off from opportunities to seek help.

I can be reached at exador23 at (your site, of course)

exador23 replied on May 26, 2008 17:49 to the question "Send Twit via an E-mail address ?" in Twitter:

This actually disturbs me. If you are receiving automatic emails from someone asking for money, regardless of how worthy the cause, please do not forward them automatically.

To do so dilutes the causes in question. If you can't take the time to read and evaluate each request before forwarding it, then I think the better question would be how to set things up so each request automatically withdraws money from ~your own~ bank account. That would be a better service to the cause than Spamming twitter.

exador23 replied on May 26, 2008 03:30 to the question "What is the best way to find like minded people?" in Twitter:

I just discovered http://www.twitterlocal.net/ Twitter Local displays the most active & most recent twitters in your local area. If you browse through some profiles there you might discover similar interests and/or someone tied into the local scene to follow.

The other way to expand along interest lines is to use http://summize.com/ just type in a keyword of interest and see where your searches take you. And don't forget to explore their top ten keyword lists as well. These are not top ten searches as I understand it - you can get those elsewhere - rather they are compiled through some algorithm of what is currently being posted.

There are a lot of similar tools. I follow http://twitter.com/twtooltrack to learn about new ones all the time.

It's tough finding the right balance between diversity of interests and the amount of information you can handle. But you can always unfollow if it's not working out for you.

Good luck.

exador23 asked a question in Twitter on May 25, 2008 19:47:

When can we expect to see 'older' tweets again?

Have only been able to see the last 20 tweets for something like 24 hours now.

Thanks for bringing back the 'replies', but quite frankly a summize search for my name can accomplish that as a work around temporarily. so if you need to cut something in order to work on some secret problem not important enough to tell us about, that would be better than making it nigh impossible to keep in touch with the people I'm following - you know - the reason I'm using twitter in the first place.

I'm trying to hang in there. But investing time re-building my social network over at Jaiku is beginner to look more worthwhile than continually pointing out the obvious here on getsatisfaction - Twitter is borked.

p.s. notice how much nicer the comments on your blog become when you let people know what's going on - you know, the underlying reason people use twitter in the first place - to let people know what's going on. Tweet already Twitter!

exador23 replied on May 24, 2008 19:35 to the problem "Twitter refuses to uphold Terms of Service" in Twitter:

1. getsatisfaction works a bit like twitter. If open discussion of a topic bothers you. you can always "unfollow" it.

2. getsatisfaction has something VERY relevant to Twitter & the TOS. If you scroll all the way down to the bottom on ~any~ page, there is a link to the Company-Customer PACT...

"Along with open, authentic communication comes the mutual responsibility to make it work. As each of us is both a customer and an employee, we share in the rewards and challenges of candor. By adopting the five practical measures, we can together realize a fundamental shift in our business relationships..."

ALL participants in this and other Twitter Topics here would do well to read it fully. And Twitter Inc. would do well to add a signature or two. And perhaps print it out and post it in their offices.

exador23 started following the discussion "How would you prefer to report Twitter spam?" in Twitter.

exador23 replied on May 24, 2008 01:10 to the problem "Twitter refuses to uphold Terms of Service" in Twitter:

Me, i'm confused.

I follow who I want to. I can stop following. I can block.

If I track my name in say summize, it defeats the block. How about asking summize for the ability to 'subtract' the offenders from your search?

or is it that your ears keep burning and you want it all to stop? in which case, yeah Twitter could hire a team of lawyer types to investigate each feud and decide who to kick off, only to come back under another name. But I'm not sure that makes much sense.

When faced with Twitter's decision on the TOS, you can throw a twit-fit, or you can figure out a way to fix the problem without their help:

joe up there gives a good suggestion. Why not set up some forum for people to publicly register their complaints and make cases openly. discussion ensues, maybe a consensus is reached, whole bunches of people begin blocking that user. maybe even with @replies to their followers with links to the open forum evidence & encouragement to join the boycott.

either the abuser is publicly shamed into better behavior, enough people block him/her that the nasty voice only has the ears of a couple other nasties, or you've got enough public support & evidence to approach TwitterInc then, or take it to a real court.

While I think twitter should keep the current TOS rather than watering it down, I don't think now is the time to be asking them to spend a lot of resources on the issue. Not when we could do most of the policing ourselves in the open instead of behind closed doors.

peace.

exador23 started following the question "Did Ariel Waldman break Twitter on 5.23.08?" in Twitter.

exador23 replied on May 23, 2008 22:02 to the question "May 20: Twitter Downtime" in Twitter:

Do you want today's (5/23) Twitter: "Help! I've fallen and I can't get up!" problem report here or elsewhere?

exador23 marked one of joe's replies in Twitter as useful. joe replied to the problem "Twitter refuses to uphold Terms of Service". exador23 and 3 other people think it's one of the best replies.

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exador23 replied on May 23, 2008 21:48 to the problem "stop following" in Get Satisfaction:

Now that I understand things better, have turned off e-mail notifications in my getsatisfaction prefs, and use the dashboard a lot more...

I think the solution might be pretty simple. One button for "I have the problem too," and one button to toggle "Follow this topic," which would change to "Stop following this topic" depending on one's status. i.e. separate the assumption that: if you post or have the same problem, you want to follow it. or vice versa.

Now that email flood is no longer a problem for me, I want to follow some of the security issues for twitter, but I don't necessarily have them & don't want to mess up the metric (like twitter cares ;-)).

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re: e-mail notifications, a footer with directions to turn off e-mail notifications (with a hyper-link), and suggestion to bookmark their dashboard (w/ hyperlink) might help.

exador23 started following the discussion "Should 'track' functionality apply to 'followed' Twitters?" in Twitter.

A comment on the problem "I've been twitterjacked!" in Twitter:

thanks mdy. just commenting to follow w/o saying I have this problem. – exador23, on May 23, 2008 21:30

exador23 started following the question "When is Twitter going to get groups?" in Twitter.

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.

exador23 replied on May 23, 2008 19:34 to the question "Strange Following." in Twitter:

And the random way one's followers are listed makes it even more difficult to manage one's network. Please, if possible, make them appear chronologically, or at least alphabetically.

And is there really a need to include their icons on the follower pages? More followers per page = quicker network management & finding of new followers, and lower stress on your servers.

exador23 started following the question "Strange Following." in Twitter.