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Re: Your friends don’t hate you, Twitter is just cleaning house again

Bill Austin — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:11:10 -0000

I was wondering just today about both of these things -

1. Why no qwitter notices and

2. Why I lost 125 or so followers suddenly.

Thanks for the update on both of these.

@wbaustin

Re: Your friends don’t hate you, Twitter is just cleaning house again

bhans — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:52:46 -0000

I also use Twitterless (@tless) instead of Qwitter. When some unfollows me I think that is great for both of us. I never take offense. I follow people all the time and soon find that they are talking about things that I dont particularly think should be in my Twitter network so I unfollow them. Not because I hate them or to teach them a lesson but to reduce the noise.

Re: Your friends don’t hate you, Twitter is just cleaning house again

Barbara Rozgonyi — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:43:29 -0000

Found this post via a RT on twitter and sent it back out again to my followers. Thanks for the update. Losing so many followers at once does make you wonder; good to have an explanation. Agree with those who recommend www.socialtoo.com. Lots of cool features - like followers/unfollowers stats reports.
@wiredprworks on twitter.com

Re: Your friends don’t hate you, Twitter is just cleaning house again

neoblog — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:21:54 -0000

Pretty sure that it had to do with Twitter changing some functions in their API and the folks at Qwitter just haven't gotten around to updating the site yet...

Great post by the way just gave a follow and I only lost 286 tweeps :|

@neoblog

Re: Your friends don’t hate you, Twitter is just cleaning house again

tylermac — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:22:02 -0000

What, do you mean people aren't just naturally attracted to my tweets?

Re: Your friends don’t hate you, Twitter is just cleaning house again

Paul Kinlan — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:16:46 -0000

www.twollo.com does something similar, it shows you everyone who followed you back based on an auto follow.

Re: Your friends don’t hate you, Twitter is just cleaning house again

Scott — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:02:17 -0000

You may want to also check out Yonkly. It's the first "create your own" microblog to integrate with Twitter: http://yonkly.com

Re: Your friends don’t hate you, Twitter is just cleaning house again

Xavier Vespa — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:55:48 -0000

I had the exact same feeling. oh well!

Re: Your friends don’t hate you, Twitter is just cleaning house again

elysa — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:52:26 -0000

I use SocialToo as well - I didn't even realize I wasn't getting notifications from Qwitter because I've just recently signed up for Social Too

Re: Your friends don’t hate you, Twitter is just cleaning house again

Michael Fidler — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:24:12 -0000

Try Socialtoo, instead of quitter. It provides the same function, as well several others!

Re: Your friends don’t hate you, Twitter is just cleaning house again

Leon Poole — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:55:04 -0000

Great questions and I'd also like to know the answers to them.

Re: Your friends don’t hate you, Twitter is just cleaning house again

Jordan Pearce — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:30:02 -0000

My followers are still the same. Maybe I have overly trained eyes or intuition and sense the spammers.

Try http://friendorfollow.com to see if those you are following are following you back.

Re: Your friends don’t hate you, Twitter is just cleaning house again

Pat Matson — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:31:55 -0000

Oh thanks for posting this. Good info for sure.

Re: Your friends don’t hate you, Twitter is just cleaning house again

Robyn @ PurelyCosmetics — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:43:38 -0000

There's always tless to let you know - http://twitterless.com/, or follow them @tless.

Re: Your friends don’t hate you, Twitter is just cleaning house again

atul — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:30:10 -0000

Instead of qwitter.com, use socialtoo.com It has an end-of-day report on who stopped following you. So far it has worked well for me.

Re: Your friends don’t hate you, Twitter is just cleaning house again

Eric Rosser Eldon — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:33:22 -0000

Considering Qwitter doesn't seem to work anymore, I'll definitely check it
out.

Re: Your friends don’t hate you, Twitter is just cleaning house again

Tabitha "Tabz" Smith — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:51:43 -0000

I haven't gotten anything from Qwitter in awhile as well.. I really appreciated the service. Hrm.

Re: Your friends don’t hate you, Twitter is just cleaning house again

Rana June Sobhany — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:46:36 -0000

On that note - is there some sort of protocol when someone unfollows you? Unfollow right away? Wait a couple days and then unfollow? Ignore it? These are the questions we need answers to!

Re: Your friends don’t hate you, Twitter is just cleaning house again

obscurelyfamous — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:45:33 -0000

The news about Qwitter is a little disheartening. The lack of Qwitter emails lately was making me think that I was actually starting to become liked...

Re: Your friends don’t hate you, Twitter is just cleaning house again

Eric Rosser Eldon — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:44:04 -0000

That is for sure, Rana!

Re: Your friends don’t hate you, Twitter is just cleaning house again

Rana June Sobhany — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:43:06 -0000

Qwitter is definitely causing a lot of drama. It's almost a blessing in disguise that it's been broken! I haven't had a follower Qwit [?] in about 16 days as well.

Re: Your friends don’t hate you, Twitter is just cleaning house again

Eric Rosser Eldon — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:52:27 -0000

MG, we're all looking to you for answers on these important matters.