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My twitter stream is being duplicated to a phantom account
Somehow twitterfeed is sending a duplicate of my twitterstream (@jakemckee) to a separate account (@__jakemckee). I didn't set up this account, nor do I wish my content to be duplicated into this account.
If you look at the funky account itself: http://twitter.com/__jakemckee you'll see that it's all coming from twitterfeed. Is there a way to manually remove this from the twitterfeed system?
Please, please, please?
Thanks!
Jake
If you look at the funky account itself: http://twitter.com/__jakemckee you'll see that it's all coming from twitterfeed. Is there a way to manually remove this from the twitterfeed system?
Please, please, please?
Thanks!
Jake
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Inappropriate?Hi Jake, I have no idea who may have created this twitter account, but I don't think there's anything I can or should do about it. If you feel this user contravenes twitter's terms, then I think you need to contact them (since they alone will be able to contact the user who created this account). twitterfeed only publishes public RSS feeds, so I don't think it's reasonable that I shold make a decision which public feeds are ok to posted through twitterfeed or not. If your twitter account is public, then it's open to the rest of the world, and any short-term measure I may take is likely to be pointless anyway.
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Inappropriate?First off, thanks for the quick reply.
It's a phantom account, there's no way to contact the person. That's the problem. More specifically, there's likely NO person behind this account, considering this appeared shortly after I changed my twitter name from "sink" to "jakemckee".
While removing the feed may be a temporary solution, there's a very very strong chance that this was an error in a twitter or twitterfeed setup somehow (more likely twitter), therefore it's not coming back.
I understand that you don't want to get into issues related to who can/should post what, but I plead with you to look at the situation before making a blanket decision. Let's look at the facts here:
* The account name is mine with addition of underscores
* There is not one post in this feed that doesn't come from twitterfeed
* The feed is my stream, thus duplicating my stream
* Every time I reply to someone with the @username, they get two reply messages (one from me and one from the phantom/troll account)
If this isn't a bug it's a troll that's causing mass irritation for me and my users. If not now, when?
Twitterfeed.com doesn't seem to have any sort of ToS that guides user behavior or dictates the terms by which you do or don't engage. I would therefore suggest that making an acceptation in this case would not only make sense but be justified.
I'll also say this: If you do go through with a delete and someone recreates it, I'll deal with it sans-twitterfeed. That will at least prove that it's not a software glitch (a completely reasonable option for twitter of late).
Thanks for your help and compassion on this issue!
Jake
I’m hopeful
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Inappropriate?Oh, by the way - I have actually been trying to get help on this issue from Twitter themselves for 3 months now.
http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/to...
No response.
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