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Is twitter going to ban mass followers/ removers?
The process of adding 30,000-60,000 followers and unfollowing those that don't follow back is gaining in popularity. It is done in chunks of 1000, and seems to be flying under the radar.
This is not healthy for twitter (30,000-60,000 messages sent by twitter from one user?) or for the community as a whole.
I fear that if twitter doesn't take some amount of action, this will be the status quo.
Is there a plan to address this issue?
This is not healthy for twitter (30,000-60,000 messages sent by twitter from one user?) or for the community as a whole.
I fear that if twitter doesn't take some amount of action, this will be the status quo.
Is there a plan to address this issue?
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?This was actually articled very well in this post:
http://www.fanboy.com/2009/01/social-...
basically, because of the auto-follow-back scripts, they can find 2000 people to follow-back and get them to the point where the follower limit no longer applies.
It'll be the end of Twitter if the Tweet Tornado douchebags ever find out about this trick. Currently their plan is making multiple accounts, each of which checks the public timeline for tweets, then follows accordingly. (Another thread complained about that kinda thing 5 days ago)
I'd like to point you to the legions of people who really think it should be A-OK to follow every single user on twitter, because they JUST MIGHT BE A POTENTIAL CUSTOMER: http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/to...
I fight that idiotic idea tooth and nail, and the whordes (misspelled on purpose) of Twitter Spammers-who-dont-like-being-called-spammers rally together to defend their illogical reasoning.
Also, I had your blog in my Google Reader and I don't remember why I added you, however your site design is familiar. Maybe you posted something @brightkite linked!?
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Inappropriate?I watched one of the "Top 100" users follow 3,000 people in 15 minutes this morning, including myself. Then, later in the day, unfollowed 1,000 who hadn't reciprocated at almost the same pace. Including myself.
Why does Twitter condone this behavior? It's degrading my experience. It's degrading Twitter's service. It's degrading the community's faith in Twitter as a platform. It's degrading all the real "experts" out there.
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?Agreed. I hate douchebags like @mrsocial and Twitter spammers. I want to report them and have them banned. (mrantisocial is a more appropriate username)
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Sweet. They suspended @mrsocial. -
wow, good for them.
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Inappropriate?It sad but true that I've been ignoring my "new follower" emails because I don't have the time to (easly) research the person's user history. I started to clear out my new follows and quit in frustration after putting in my userID along w/ the new follower at http://twittercounter.com/
Maybe we need a "mode" where your feed just displays the public timeline?! Twitter please add a "total number ever followed" button then put that in to a ratio like how ebay has a % of positive to neg's in their rating system ~A Nollmeyer
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