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Losing Twitter followers? It’s not you, it’s Twitter

Went Hot: June 16, 2008 - 11:28 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 386 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://venturebeat.com)
Category: Networking

A scan of the Twitter search site Summize shows a large amount of people tweeting about lost followers over the past few days. No one knows for sure what is going on but a few have keyed in on the idea that Twitter may simply be deleting the accounts of users it marked as spammers.

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from g1smd 386 days ago #

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A lot of my posts have vanished in the last week or two.

It's broken.

from planetc1 385 days ago #

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I thought it was something I said.

from yojpotter2 384 days ago #

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I agree..I also experience the same scenario..I guess Twitter is starting to feel the pressure of having to many subscribers.

from notsleepy 384 days ago #

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"Crap. The site and API is completely busted 90% of the time. Ok, intern. Do this every 2 hours:"

DELETE FROM followers ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 0, 1000;