Christa's dashboard

M. Hamzah Khan replied on September 09, 2008 00:45 to the problem "Fake accounts being created with my email addresses" in Twitter:

It says my account doesn't exist :(

mdy replied on September 07, 2008 06:45 to the problem "Fake accounts being created with my email addresses" in Twitter:

Hi marshymutt. If someone has used your email address to register a Twitter account, you can take over that account by doing this:

1. Go to Twitter's Password Resend page at http://twitter.com/account/resend_pas...

2. In the form provided, enter your email address and click the [Reset my password] button.

This causes Twitter to send an email to your email address. That email will contain a link that you can click to change the password of the Twitter account that is using your email address.

3. Login to your email account and look for the password reset email from Twitter. Click the link in that email.

4. In the web page that loads, specify a new password for the Twitter account. Once you've changed the password, the Twitter account will now be under your control.

marshymutt replied on September 07, 2008 05:54 to the problem "Fake accounts being created with my email addresses" in Twitter:

Christa,

I understand and sympathize with your problem. I was invited to join Twitter and found, when trying to register, that my email address, which is my full name @hotmail.com...obviously belonging to me and no one else for many years...already existed. That person is not me and using not only my email address but also my name. I have o idea how or what they have said, but I have never been a member of Twitter before so feel publicly assaulted and robbed.

A comment on the question "What is Twitter's stance toward abuse?" in Twitter:

"Twitter is not a judge for resolving disputes over most content issues—our focus is on service."
Then you need to rewrite your terms of service, which presently outlaw "abuse and harassment". – charlesarthur, on September 01, 2008 21:44

A comment on the question "How can I let someone to follow me but not vice versa?" in Twitter:

Good suggestion, mdy. – Amy Muller, on July 30, 2008 18:01

Scott Fleckenstein replied on July 30, 2008 15:53 to the question "How can I let someone to follow me but not vice versa?" in Twitter:

Awesome work fellas!

mdy replied on July 30, 2008 07:04 to the question "How can I let someone to follow me but not vice versa?" in Twitter:

By the way -- Crystal started a new topic regarding the change to protected profiles.

I suggest that we log any bugs / issues that we encounter (if any) with this protected profile change in the other thread, so they'll be easier to find and track.

The new thread is here:
http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/topics/protected_profile_changes.

A comment on the question "How can I let someone to follow me but not vice versa?" in Twitter:

Jason, you and the Twitter team have my very heartfelt thanks. This is an awesome day. – Jay Allen, on July 30, 2008 06:50

Aaron replied on July 30, 2008 01:07 to the question "How can I let someone to follow me but not vice versa?" in Twitter:

AWESOME. Thank you Twitter team!

Jason Goldman replied on July 29, 2008 23:38 to the question "How can I let someone to follow me but not vice versa?" in Twitter:

We finally got this fix out the door; it was amazingly tricky from a code management perspective because of the number of moving parts. And, of course, it kept getting pushed because of needed stability work.

Please let us know if you run into bugs with the new functionality. There are additional enhancements we wanted to make (like showing the number of follower/following counts for the requesting user) that had to be cut because of performance reasons. They're still on the list tho'.

Glad folks are happy about the change; thanks for hanging in there as we fixed it.

Cameron Walters replied on July 29, 2008 21:49 to the question "How can I let someone to follow me but not vice versa?" in Twitter:

Tremendous! With this fix and the increased stability of the service in general, Twitter is really starting to look shiny again.

Thanks, Twitter team!

Eridanus replied on July 29, 2008 21:38 to the question "How can I let someone to follow me but not vice versa?" in Twitter:

That's great news! It must have been tricky to implement; I'd got used to the idea of it being impossible.

Thanks, Twitter!

Amy Muller replied on July 29, 2008 21:27 to the question "How can I let someone to follow me but not vice versa?" in Twitter:

Fantastic. HUGE improvement. Also, the friend request page has been greatly improved. Nice work, Twitter. Thank you!

caweena replied on July 29, 2008 21:10 to the question "How can I let someone to follow me but not vice versa?" in Twitter:

This is too awesome! I'm restoring my account today :D yay yay YAY!

obhi replied on July 29, 2008 20:09 to the question "How can I let someone to follow me but not vice versa?" in Twitter:

Great news! Many thanks to Twitter. Now I can finally mobilise groups of friends, colleagues and relatives to set up their own private Twitter groups to coordinate their activities without having to 'go public'.

Courtney replied on July 29, 2008 19:28 to the question "How can I let someone to follow me but not vice versa?" in Twitter:

OMG it is apparently fixed: http://help.twitter.com/index.php?pg=...

Yay Twitter!

Amy Muller replied on July 28, 2008 18:26 to the question "How can I let someone to follow me but not vice versa?" in Twitter:

I would guess it's because they've had their hands full with all the scaling & restoring work they've had to do recently. Being part of a tech startup myself I can understand how the best intentions sometimes have to be set aside when you find yourself needing to deal with mission-critical issues.

That being said, an update would be much appreciated. Is this still on a short-term roadmap? Has it been indefinitely postponed?

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Aaron replied on July 28, 2008 01:48 to the question "How can I let someone to follow me but not vice versa?" in Twitter:

Months gone by and this is STILL not fxed. WHY???

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