Tweepular randomly unfollowed hundreds refreshing twitter via web.

Unpopular but thought this app would help clean up SEO/porn/spammers. Unfortunately, it did a lot more than intended. Totally bummed that users fell by the dozens.

Does twitter api provide logging capabilities or could a twitterer possibly assist?

Browser: Chrome 2.0.172.33

@barryallard at 7/3/2009 7:49 pm Pacific, 7/4/2009 3:49 am GMT.

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mdy replied on July 04, 2009 03:05

Hi Barry. If you happen to have the habit of keeping all the emails that Twitter has sent you, it's possible that you can reconstruct part of your Friends list by looking through all the "you have a new follower" emails from Twitter.

I say "part" because your Follower list rarely matches your Friends list exactly.

(Unfortunately, that's the only thing I can think of suggesting right now.)

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Barry Allard replied on July 04, 2009 03:30

@mdy: Thanks. Still have to get a twitter backup service and look into twitter api logging.

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mdy replied on July 04, 2009 04:30

Oh, I forgot to add -- if you happen to have common friends with other Twitter users, it might help to browse through another user's friends list because you're likely to find your common friends that way.

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Danny Brown replied on July 05, 2009 17:18

Sadly sounds like user error Barry as Tweepular is not an automated service, you need to physically choose who to delete.

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Barry Allard replied on July 05, 2009 20:03

@Danny: Wish Occam's razor were so.

Use case:

1) Bulk unfollow some users multiple times in that app (which seems quite useful, well laid out and functional otherwise, although the theme is geared toward kids).
2) Vsit http://twitter.com/ in the same instance of Google Chrome 2.0.172.33 + Adobe Flash 10.0.22.87.
3) Watch random # of followed people dropped by dozens with each refresh.

It looks like there was some delay in the api only to realize it was the browser + twitter.com actually dropping followed people. At that point, of course I closed all browser instances, restarted it and cleared the cache. Reloading twitter.com in another browser showed the situation stabilized.

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Barry Allard commented on July 05, 2009 20:56

Solution: regular, automated twitter backup.
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Barry Allard commented on July 05, 2009 22:13

There might have been a related problem in the twitter infrastructure. http://status.twitter.com/post/128844... Could be wrong.