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Why am I following people without meaning to?
Looking at my Twitter page this morning, I noticed that I've started following two people who are clearly spammers. I never visited their pages before and certainly didn't ask to start following them.
Is there a hack that allows people to force you to follow them or has someone figured out my password?
Is there a hack that allows people to force you to follow them or has someone figured out my password?
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Inappropriate?Hi Simon. Hope you'll bear with my questions...
1. Do you by any chance have a private account and you need to grant people permission to follow you?
If yes, the act of letting people follow your private account actually causes you to follow them back. It's an unfortunate side-effect of the way Twitter's private accounts are currently designed.
Twitter has already said that they intend to change this behavior, but there's no definite timeline yet as to when these changes will be implemented, since they are first focused on stabilizing the system.
2. If, on the other hand, you actually have a public account, then my question is this: Have you by any chance recently enabled auto-follow for your account? There are third-party services (such as Tweetlater and Socialtoo) that let you automatically follow back anyone who follows you.
If you think there's a chance that a third-party service is automatically following back those individuals on your behalf, but you can't remember which third-party service it is, then your best bet is to change your Twitter password.
If you can't recall using any third party service that may have automatically followed back those individuals on your behalf, then I believe your best recourse is to log a support ticket at http://twitter.com/help, describe the problem that you have (as you did above), and make sure to include the two accounts that you're now mysteriously following.
Hope that helps in some way.
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Inappropriate?Thanks for taking the time to write such a helpful reply :)
I have a public account and I don't use any third party services. I changed my password as soon as I noticed what had happened so now I'll log a ticket as you suggested.
Thanks again,
Simon
I’m thankful
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Inappropriate?Hi Simon, thanks for bringing this to our attention. We're looking into how this could have happened and frozen both accounts while we investigate.
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Inappropriate?I seem to be having this problem on at least one of our accounts. I know we didn't follow them since we were not at home. I've gone into Settings and disabled all 3rd party sites with access, and I just changed the password. We'll see if this continues.
But I do not see any place on Twitter where I can formally log this problem.
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