Not getting email when someone follows me

Yeah me too. I think it's been a week or more. Couple new followers in the past day or two and no email notice.

Thanks for any help, and thanks for everything Twitter!

Same thing is happening to me these past few days. I've checked my settings, everything is ticked and e-mail address is valid, but no notification of new followers.

i'm still having this problem has there been a solution?

Is it possible that the Twitter email notifications are getting caught in your email account's spam filters?

Would you have any way to check if this could be the case?

I just started having this problem.... but its intermittent on the followers. I am, however, no longer getting direct messages to email at all..... this started today.

The last email I received from Twitter is dated April 11, 2008 (Fri) 3:36pm US Pacific Time (just noting it here fwiw, if it can aid in any troubleshooting).

I'm not getting notifications of new followers, but I am getting DM messages.

not getting notifications of new followers or notifications of DMs. thanks!
amygeekgrl on twitter

I get email notice of DMs but not follows. It seems to be wide-spread and persistant. Any update from support?

Got the same problem.
- Didn't recieve any email notification about new followers
- Still get Direct message.
- Happened as I started losing my sms updates. (does it relate??)

I always get email alerts *unless* the new follower is a "Twitter Slut" - someone who's following tens of thousands of people. There's obviously a whole in the Twitter code that allows these people, generally spammers, to add you to the list of people they follow and bypass the email alert.

Same problem here. Seems that I am not getting any e-mail notifications anymore

Oops. just replied elsewhere before noticing a more consolidated thread.

I am receiving e-mail notifications of followers, but only about 2-3 notifications for every 5 or so new followers by the main page count - thus discounting user error or spam filtering.

The random way followers show up on the web page makes it nigh impossible to figure out what's going on. a chronological listing, preferably w/o icons so more followers will fit on a page would help ~immensely~ (after all, for new followers I'm going to be checking their profile & see the icon there, and not showing icons should lower your server load) In fact, my front page says I have 87 followers, but only 86 show up on the follower pages (assuming each page really is 20 followers, or there isn't some time lag between being dropped & follower page updates)

I'm hoping no-one has figured out how to follow clandestinely or without receiving notification - and yes, I understand the ramifications of a "public" timeline. this isn't about paranoia.

This problem is still going on. I've checked my spam filters, I've double checked my settings, and I ALWAYS get notified when the person following me is a genuine friend or new acquaintence. I never get notified by email when the person adding me has more than about 500 people they are following.

I also seem to have this problem when it's a followers who follow tons of people.

Since spammers/twit-whores can do this, there's an obvious problem. If Twitter chooses to remain silent on the issue, that could do more harm than the current architecture issues. All the hardware and good design in the world won't help if the service is abused by spammers.

i'm really frustrated by this.. it's been going on for a long time now.

It sure would be nice to at least get acknowledgment from Twitter that a whole bunch of follow whores or stalker bots have found a way around their notification procedure, and the problem is being looked into.

Yesterday I discovered a follower who's following 111,000 people. Maybe dealing with these abusers of the system might be more productive than suggesting legitimate users with lots of followers are stressing out the whale.

Happening to me as well.

Can I say me too! And the one's I don't get notifications about seem to be SPAM type followers - those who follow thousands & have names like Luv Syrup or Porn ... something or other.

It seems to be an anti-spam measure, based on some comments they made in this May 30, 2008 interview with Scoble (24 min 50 sec in).

I think they're not announcing it because they don't want spammers to know exactly what anti-spam measures they're taking.

They said the most spam-related complaints they've received come from people who received new follower email notifications when they're followed by another user who has mass-followed a lot of others. So they've taken steps to eliminate that email.

So Twitter is obviously aware when someone is mass-following a lot of people because that behavior 'trips' their system in some way and causes them to not send those emails.

Okay then... so without the notification, then how do we know when we're being followed by a spammer so we can block? Am I missing something here?

The only way to do it is the hard way, by hand. :(

I have the same question as acomputerpro. It's good that we aren't getting the New Follower email from the spammers but they are silently following us which makes it hard to block them. I suppose we can use tools like Twerp Scan or Tweeple to identify them but Twitter really should be giving us better tools for doing that.

I actually covered this, myself in a blog post a few days ago. @ev replied with the explanation. The lack of notification is by design: http://is.gd/oQi

Argh. Wrong link. I did a follow-up post after I got @ev's response and a question about what benefit could spammers get. Here's the actual original post: http://is.gd/oas Sorry 'bout that.

So if twitter has a way to detect the follow whores, why doesn't that trip a captcha or something to stop or slow their bot activity instead of just letting them follow without our knowledge?????

I don't get it. When did greasing the skids for spammers become a solution?

By keeping our followers list random AND refusing to let us know when a spammer starts following us, you help them. As I read this it is a purposeful choice by Twitter to aid the spammers.

It is easy to see from the numbers that these accounts are not being deleted. If you wanted to help, users would be able to see new follows in their accounts rather than a random list so we could review them.

They should just send us a e-mail like this:

Hi, *username*.

*name* (*nickname*) is now following your updates on Twitter.

We think this user might be a spam account, according to the number of people he/she is following.
Spam accounts cause troubles so if this is not somebody you know, you can block the person in order to help keeping twitter clean and fun.

Check out *username* profile here (mind that clicking any links can send you to inappropriate websites):
http://twitter.com/*username*

You can block this account by clicking here:
https://twitter.com/blocks/confirm/12...

Best,
Twitter

This way you still get a notice when someone is following you but you know it probably will be spam...
What do you think about that?

O btw: You can go to http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/ and filter your followers to see only the people that follow you and you don't follow back, then you can see easily who's a spamfollower. You can bulk block. (site can have some problems 'cause of the twitter problems)

I don't get notified of new followers either, but I can see my count growing. It's so annoying. I want to follow back the legit people.

Has there been any other answer to this yet, or is this still the policy? Why is there not just a cutoff number of people you're allowed to follow per hour? Secondary: If enough people mark you as a spammer, Twitter could look at your account to see if you are.

This system of hiding followers is both filtering out nonspammers and taking the control out of our hands. Please consider changing it--soon!

I'm still getting follower notifications via email when the person who follows me isn't a mass-follower. Afaik, Twitter only supresses email notifications when the user that followed you is already known to them to be a mass-follower.

As a test, I just followed you (@familydoctormag) using one of my accounts. It will be interesting to see if you get a notification email.

I know from other threads in this forum that Twitter flags for review any account that has been blocked by a lot of people, and I have no reason to believe that's not still the case.

It also looks like they will be soon (if not already) be enforcing limits in the number of follows, based on this new FAQ page that I saw recently.

Looks like notices are coming more frequently. I've gotten a few notices of new followers recently, all spammers. They always come right after I post an update. At least I can then block them.

Interestingly, Twitter is still doing nothing to block obvious abuse. The last follower I got was on someone who first posted less than an hour ago and was already following 4,111 people!

Now it appears the New Follower notifications for spammers are coming through again. So does this mean that the experiment of suppressing these emails from known spammers is over?

I'm getting the same problem. No email notifications on new follows or DMs. This started after December 13th 2008 around 9am (GMT+10)

Tried changing emails, no difference, checked spam and nothing in there.

I was receiving notifications of new followers up until yesterday, 12/29. My follower count is going up still but I'm not receiving the email notifications any more.

I had my ISP check their email logs. They confirmed they weren't blocking emails from twitter as they have other clients who recieve emails from twitter and their email servers weren't receiving any email from twitter for my address.

I also changed my email host to another provider and I'm not getting any emails there either. This confirms my previous provider was telling the truth.

Jeanjoh, your provider will probably tell you the same as my old provider did.

I tried changing emails to another address, and this seems to fix the problem, but it creates a new problem as it's an address I rarely check.

Can Twitter please fix this! I want to use my main email address to receive following emails and direct messages.

mdy, great idea, but there's no option for me to auto forward on my alt address :(

I'll look at getting a gmail account if it can do it

This isn't just a one-time problem with you Aaron. I've been using Twitter for over a year and used to get email notifications all the time. They all stopped on Saturday night Jan 3rd. Emails aren't coming for follows or for DMs, and only on my Twitter.com/emom account. I have another business account that is still getting notifications.