Not getting email when someone follows me

I have it too, I just signed up for Twitter yesterday though.

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