Mislav's dashboard

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.

Mark replied on August 17, 2008 22:15 to the problem "Direct message sent from phone appears in public timeline" in Twitter:

Hey no problem! Please let us know if you see this behavior again.

A comment on the problem "Direct message sent from phone appears in public timeline" in Twitter:

Hi Roy, I've sent you a few questions. – Mark, on August 17, 2008 22:08

royblumenthal replied on August 17, 2008 21:56 to the problem "Direct message sent from phone appears in public timeline" in Twitter:

Thanks Mark. I apprecite your feedback.

Oh oh...

I've just gone into my Facebook account to see if the status thing has happened lately. And it hasn't.

I then delved further into my status update history, and I can't find any instances of this having happened!

Oh jeez. I feel like a complete fruitcake now! I hope I didn't imagine this whole thing.

Mark... If I was mistaken, I apologize.

Blue skies
love
Roy

Mark replied on August 17, 2008 21:19 to the problem "Direct message sent from phone appears in public timeline" in Twitter:

Hi guys, we're looking into this.

Eridanus replied on August 13, 2008 12:38 to the problem "Direct message sent from phone appears in public timeline" in Twitter:

Hi, royblumenthal:

This doesn't sound good: I'd not want all my friends to see all of my DM correspondence!

From Twitter's perspective, I suppose Facebook is third party...

Since this thread is rather underpopulated, you might attract Twitter's attention by submitting a support request via http://twitter.com/help/ and including a link to this thread.

You should receive an automatic email acknowledgement within minutes. Twitter process support requests sequentially and usually have a backlog, so ca. 5 days may elapse before you receive a human response.

royblumenthal replied on August 13, 2008 11:37 to the problem "Direct message sent from phone appears in public timeline" in Twitter:

Hi, Eridanus...

From Facebook's perspective, the Twitter app is third party. From Twitter's perspective, I believe it's a Twitter tool, not a different operator.

To confirm... yes... all of the people who are able to view my Facebook status are able to see both '@' and 'd' messages as my Facebook status update.

Which basically means that there's NO privacy on my Twitter acc, unless I switch off the Facebook plugin.

Blue skies
love
Roy

Eridanus replied on August 13, 2008 11:17 to the problem "Direct message sent from phone appears in public timeline" in Twitter:

Isn't the Twitter Facebook app. (or Facebook itself, for that matter) a third-party app?

Can people (e.g. your Facebook friends) other than you (when you're logged in as you) view your DMs in Facebook?

I don't like the sound of this!

royblumenthal replied on August 13, 2008 10:10 to the problem "Direct message sent from phone appears in public timeline" in Twitter:

Hiya...

I too have seen this problem.

What I'm observing is that my '@' and 'd' messages are used by Facebook as status updates! This is hectic!

'd' messages are supposed to be private. Between two people only. But they're appearing ON MY FACEBOOK status!!!!

What can be done?

I'm not using any third party apps. I'm using the Twitter Facebook app.

Please can anyone solve this????

Blue skies
love
Roy

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Colonel Molerat replied on August 12, 2008 02:30 to the question "Why is the number of people I follow off by +1? (I follow 60, twitter thinks I follow 61)" in Twitter:

Ah well.
Wait and wait and wait and wait.

Joel Danielson replied on July 19, 2008 04:20 to the problem "Add Followers/Following metrics and Follow/Block buttons to New Follower e-mail" in Twitter:

i've been trying to raise this same issue with a site called "soundcloud". side issue, but the idea i had for that was that perhaps users could be voted down to a point that triggers a vote to ban them for abusing the system.

another idea would be to have no notification to the user who has been followed, thereby dropping the incentive for the spammer to randomly add people.

mapkid replied on July 15, 2008 23:36 to the problem "Add Followers/Following metrics and Follow/Block buttons to New Follower e-mail" in Twitter:

Oh, we're calling them Spitters. I like it. I was calling them barnacles. I can call them spitters, though. either way :-)

A comment on the question "Why is the number of people I follow off by +1? (I follow 60, twitter thinks I follow 61)" in Twitter:

To be honest, Twitter has bigger priorities than this...like making the site stable, rebuilding their system structure while keeping the site up, restoring IM and tracking, fixing pagination for those who aren't seeing the "Older" button, and so on. – Spam, on July 08, 2008 22:18

JustSomeGuy replied on July 08, 2008 21:45 to the question "Why is the number of people I follow off by +1? (I follow 60, twitter thinks I follow 61)" in Twitter:

Hey, "the company" said that answered our question ... that should be good enough for us ... right? Who are we? Users? They can get ANYBODY to do our job.

A comment on the problem "avatar sizes in HTML and CSS don't match" in Twitter:

Yes, that's exactly what mdy described. I'm fine with this, because scaled-down images don't look so ugly compared to ones which are scaled up. – Mislav, on July 03, 2008 18:23

Tiago replied on July 03, 2008 17:58 to the problem "avatar sizes in HTML and CSS don't match" in Twitter:

or they are using only one image at 73x73, and scaled down to 31 using CSS when in avatar.

the image used in twitter.com/username is 73x73.

so simple, yet so difficult...

A comment on the problem "avatar sizes in HTML and CSS don't match" in Twitter:

Yeah, you're right. – Mislav, on July 03, 2008 12:33

mdy replied on July 03, 2008 09:41 to the problem "avatar sizes in HTML and CSS don't match" in Twitter:

I think they used to have a smaller version of all our avatar images at 24x24, which they use to display avatars of people we're following in our sidebar. And it was the smaller pic that they were displaying before, just scaled to 31x31.

Now it seems they've decided to use the larger versions of our avatar pics, which are 73x73.

So my guess is they're just using the larger version of the avatar image and didn't make any change to the css code.

Mislav will probably know better. I'm just guessing. LOL.

Eridanus replied on July 03, 2008 08:21 to the problem "avatar sizes in HTML and CSS don't match" in Twitter:

It looks as though they've fixed it!

When I glanced at my sidebar today, I found I'm much more focused than usual.

My Graphic Properties popup says the image is MyPic_bigger.gif (3318 byte: that's actually my full-size 73 x 73 avatar) with 31 x 31 pixels.

So it's being scaled on-the-fly (Why? Is that less work for Twitter than storing & transmitting a 31 x 31 graphic? Or just simpler to code that way?).

I'll leave mdy and Mislav to find and describe the changes in the code!