Twinkle Following Issue

There are several moments where I've wanted to follow someone on Twitter via Twinkle and it doesn't register. I press the follow button within Twinkle and it says I'm following a certain person but when I go to Twitter it says that I'm not following that particular user.

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Chris Clark replied on July 23, 2008 04:12

If that person is using Twitter too, the follow should carry over to Twitter. But not all Twinkle users are using Twitter.

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David commented on July 30, 2008 02:52

The follow feature isn't working. I even tried following twinkleking and it didn't work. I had to log in to the twitter web interface to add the follow.
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Zoe commented on July 30, 2008 10:17

Same for me, too. I have to log in to twitter, find that person, and press follow. Just following them in twinkle doesn't work
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John commented on August 09, 2008 13:09

Same problem. I find people on my local page, and I hit follow. They then show-up in my main timeline, but if I look at them there, I'm not following them in Twitter. If I follow them again from my main timeline, it activates the Twitter follow. Just following from Local doesn't do it.
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rjh replied on August 09, 2008 14:56

same problem; i follow in local, and it shows up in the main timeline, but not in twirl or twitter.com. oddly, i can't even find the person via twitter search to follow there! it's like they're a "twinkle only" user and not really on twitter or something.... i tried unfollowing and re-following in the main timeline in twinkle, but no dice. :(

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Chris Clark commented on August 09, 2008 22:04

More than half of the Twinkle community is Twinkle-only -- they don't have Twitter accounts -- so the following won't carry over to Twitter. If you follow a Twitter user from within Twinkle it should carry over to Twitter immediately.
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USTommyMC replied on August 10, 2008 06:54

I thought I had this problem too but I was mistaken. I originally thought that Twinkle was just another Twitter client but it's more than that. I wondered by people I was following via Twinkle were not showing up in Twitter. It's like Chris Clark said, Twinkle is it's own service in addition to Twitter. A fellow Twinkle user once asked me what Twitter was and I mistakenly replied that "it's what we're using to communicate" only to find out that Twinkle was what were using to communicate. I almost dumped Twinkle for Twitterrific but I'm sticking with it and giving it a chance.

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ed, Official Rep, replied on December 18, 2008 00:46

Twinkle 1.1 issue. If you have this problem again, please let us know.

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macpbr98 commented on December 27, 2008 19:48

Hi Ed.

So is it true that not all Twinkle users are Twitter.com users? Therefore, if I can follow a non-Twitter.com user on Twinkle, I won't find them on my Twitter.com followers list?

But... if I follow a person on Twinkle and they are also a Twitter.com user, I should see that person listed on Twitter.com?