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John Nunemaker replied on November 24, 2008 02:34 to the question "Saying my twitter account is taken so it won't add" in Sidebar Creative:

Mark,
Send an email to mymm@sidebarcreative.com which your m3 email and your twitter username.

Mark Douglass replied on November 23, 2008 04:31 to the question "Saying my twitter account is taken so it won't add" in Sidebar Creative:

Unfortunately I have this problem as well. I had a Twitter user name I was using with M3, but changed the name with Twitter, it still is the same account though, just a name change. M3 won't accept it though :(

Could you email me those verification instructions at [my getsatisfaction account] at gmail.com?

Thanks!

Mark Douglass started following the question "Saying my twitter account is taken so it won't add" in Sidebar Creative.

Mark Douglass started following the idea "Change Twitter format" in Sidebar Creative.

Emee replied on October 31, 2008 02:00 to the problem "Block moved - also removed from non-followers - leaves loophole!!" in Twitter:

Thanks very much for your patience! A fix has been deployed for this bug.

If you continue to see this problem or see new unusual behavior with the Block and Unblock links, please let us know.

A comment on the problem "Block moved - also removed from non-followers - leaves loophole!!" in Twitter:

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is back, it is back! Thank you Twitter powers that be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Much love and kudos to the programmers and whomever for bringing it back!! :) And thanks for pointing it out @mdy!!! – GeekMommy, on October 31, 2008 00:58

mdy replied on October 31, 2008 00:51 to the problem "Block moved - also removed from non-followers - leaves loophole!!" in Twitter:

Is it just me or does it look like the Block link is back? I just noticed it a minute or two ago.

Mark Douglass' reply to "Block moved - also removed from non-followers - leaves loophole!!" was just promoted to the most useful! franciscat and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

As a temporary fix, you can block someone the following way:
I'm going to use GeekMommy as an example:

1. Go to the bottom of their profile page, in this case http://twitter.com/geekmommy

2. Copy the RSS link, again, using GeekMommy as an example, it is: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_time...

3. Note the user number and append it to this link (http://twitter.com/blocks/confirm/), such as http://twitter.com/blocks/confirm/430...

4. Follow the blocking instructions as usual.

A comment on the problem "Block moved - also removed from non-followers - leaves loophole!!" in Twitter:

Thanks Mark - but what a pain in the a** that we have to go track down the user # and manually block - they need to just put the block link back. Once again tho, this is just going unresponded to. – GeekMommy, on October 30, 2008 16:30

GeekMommy marked one of Mark Douglass' replies in Twitter as useful. Mark Douglass replied to the problem "Block moved - also removed from non-followers - leaves loophole!!". GeekMommy and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

A comment on the problem "Block moved - also removed from non-followers - leaves loophole!!" in Twitter:

Thanks for re-posting your workaround here :) – Eridanus, on October 30, 2008 13:03

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Mark Douglass replied on October 30, 2008 12:34 to the problem "Block moved - also removed from non-followers - leaves loophole!!" in Twitter:

As a temporary fix, you can block someone the following way:
I'm going to use GeekMommy as an example:

1. Go to the bottom of their profile page, in this case http://twitter.com/geekmommy

2. Copy the RSS link, again, using GeekMommy as an example, it is: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_time...

3. Note the user number and append it to this link (http://twitter.com/blocks/confirm/), such as http://twitter.com/blocks/confirm/430...

4. Follow the blocking instructions as usual.

A comment on the problem "Block only available after mutual following?" in Twitter:

Now that really is obscure! Thanks for the extra information :) – Eridanus, on October 30, 2008 11:22

A comment on the problem "Block only available after mutual following?" in Twitter:

I guess I should have also mentioned that you will have to enter the user's number, not their username.

Easiest way to find it is at the bottom of the page, through the RSS link to their updates. – Mark Douglass, on October 30, 2008 10:52

Eridanus replied on October 30, 2008 10:46 to the problem "Block only available after mutual following?" in Twitter:

Thanks for your manual hack tip (even though it's not the easiest way), which will help all who sorely need a Block button so that they can block unwelcome users even when there's no following relationship.

Mark Douglass reported a problem in Twitter on October 30, 2008 09:04:

Block only available after mutual following?

It appears that for the past few weeks, possibly since the Twitter UI change, the block link has disappeared from users profiles.

At first I thought maybe if I followed the person I want to block, that the link would then show up, but this is not the case either:


The link will only show up for users which I have a mutual following relationship with.

As a temporary fix I have been initiating the blocks manually (http://twitter.com/blocks/confirm/xxxxxx), but this is quite annoying.

Anybody else experiencing this?

Btw, regarding blocks, a suggestion would be to show me when I have blocked a user, once I visit their profile page. ;)

syzygy replied on September 22, 2008 19:06 to the problem "Missing Twitters/updates" in Twitter:

I hope you don't mind my bumping this thread, but I was suprised to see a tweet from @trevypoos on my wife's 'home' timeline (since she follows him as well), but not mine! It kinda makes me wonder how many other tweets I've missed...

This is the tweet that never turned up, incidentally:

http://twitter.com/trevypoos/statuses...

It's not a reply.. it's simply not there (nor is it on my m.twitter.com feed)! I'm worried that I'm missing out on (a small percentage of) the fun!

Mark Douglass replied on July 03, 2008 21:08 to the problem "Can't add German mobile # for SMS alerts" in SET Consulting:

I was just about to post on this as well.

Jared and his team stayed right on top of this issue and had it resolved quickly!
Big props to you and thanks again!

Jared Goralnick replied on July 03, 2008 20:11 to the problem "Can't add German mobile # for SMS alerts" in SET Consulting:

After emailing Mark, we've got the SMS number working A-OK. Thanks for your patience, Mark :-). By the time we launch, hopefully all these kinks will be worked out!