#49

I think we have to take the benefit of twitter by following its rules .

#50

En verdad no entiendo,porque se me a suspendido,siempre e tenido muy presente todas las normas y reglas y de repente me suspenden,agradezco me reintegren de nuevo mi cuenta,es un medio de expresarme y mantenerme informado y compartir con mis seguidores,muchas gracias anticipadas al equipo de twitter

#51

I am using Twitter for a school project. I have downloaded the Twitter app on the iPad (4th generation) and the iPod touch (3rd generation). When I compare the trending hashtags (as well as the Tweets that correspond with these hashtags) on my mobile devices, they do not all match up with the trending hashtags and Tweets on Twitter’s website on my computer, even though I am using the same account and have selected “tailored trends” on all of the devices. Does anyone know why this is? I was told it might have something to do with the API. Also, are the Tweets for the trending hashtags on the apps only the Top Tweets or do they include all Tweets? I was directed to the developers message board for answers to these questions and would really appreciate any help. Thank you.

#52

sorry i dont know about Auto following can you help in that pls

#53

I, personally, want real/loyal followers. People truly interested in my content. I only follow accounts that offer content I find interesting. Another point of interest to me is why people would hand over their Twitter username and passwords to a third party application unless they are proven to be trustworthy? Seems to me you are only asking for trouble.

#54

I took notice that it seems your intention to stop the automatic follow back.
This is really a disaster! I cannot stay all the day long, sit checking the email to see who followed me so that I can follow her back.
I use also spam filters in order to be sure that who want’s to follow me, is real and has real intention to do it.
Thus, why to block something it’s so useful??
I think that in 2013 we should take advantage of automation rather than to penalize any initiative!!
If you continue on this step, we will be back in 1513 rather than 2013.

#55

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#56

No estoy de acuerdo con twitter de cancelar el servicio “Seguimiento de vuelta a los que me siguen o sigo” que mejor podría ser que si yo sigo a una persona por x o y razón, esa persona me siga de vuelta para tener una mejor relación de amistad y cooperación. Saludos… Farley Marin

#57

@julia_cortez1 made some really smart suggestions. I had not thought of this but then I thought, Twitter has some really smart people too and all they do is work on issues like this. Why have they not thought of it? I think it is safe to say they have.

I think we are seeing the need to monetize Twitter becoming a priority and the fact is big business buys ads. Small Businesses in general have to date shown much less aptitude to buy such ads. Big business has no problem to increase their payroll by 0.02% and hire a person to perform this function. SMB’s however have a hard time increasing their payroll by 14% for the same results. Spam driven automation sucks. We all agree on that. I would like to know the exact count of people who followed someone and that resulted in them being followed back and that made them feel like they were spammed.

My guess is that, not a single person has ever followed someone and had then had them follow them back in itself creating a bad UX on the Twitter platform. In fact, if asked “do you like it when the brands you follow, follow you back?” almost everyone would say yes.

My honest guess is as this policy only stands to lower the overall UX, it is a result of negotiations for a large ad buy or part of plan to sell large corporations on the new value proposition created by leveraging the platform to their benefit. That or Twitter will start selling this service after the dust clears. We have used auto follow back for about half of our 9,000 that we currently follow. They say it is to protect the content of our home page but the fact is, and I see it right now, the people who follow me have the content I like to find and now instead of enjoying this content, I will spend what little time I already available for it hitting a button over and over again in a mindless fashion that any monkey (or api calling script) could easily do.

With social media ROI already a tough sell that is hard to justify with the SMB I think Twitter just made it one part more expensive and one step further from justifiable ROI. Therefore, making their own ads that much less attractive. We have planned and financed our first Twitter paid campaign to start September 3rd. We have informed the client that changes to the Twitter api have now taken Twitter back down to the questionable ROI category. We proactively moved this spend elsewhere as who wants to buy a bunch of followers from Twitter if it means you are going to have to sit at a computer for hours and follow them back one by one.

We rep brands and we are a brand. As a brand you do not pick and choose who you like. A brand who makes public votes as to who they like and do not like is costing itself money on a regular basis. It is not usually smart to even cast political votes but when you start segmenting your customer base into a liked and disliked column you are going to have issues. I think our best bet is to un-follow everyone and simply not follow people on Twitter anymore. I think a lot of small brands will have to now adopt this strategy. I will have to read the doc on this again to understand how not following anyone is going to make my Twitter UX better.

#58

I am sorry, but we are a very small non-profit who needs all of the assistance we can get reaching the public. Twitter’s decision to discontinue auto followback is causing us a severe drain on our time, having to spend additional time researching and following–individually–each new follower. I for one would greatly appreciate it if you would reconsider this decision, especially since we are paying for auto-followback on a monthly basis to increase our reach to potential contributors. Thank you.

#59

I need more help on , 'How to unfollow with my mobile phone. My sms is filled up and can’t control the situation.
Thanks

#60

Pls I want to unsubscribe to 40404.
Thank you.

#61

Agg! This thing is takin’ a lota time! I can’t even meet the deadlines! Why must twitter be this complicated? All of a sudden we have restrictions! Twitter used to be simple,cool and time saving!

And now twitter is probably the most tiring/complicated/time-assuming! And causes lots of head ache’s!

Back to back! Why are you jealous? Because we have more followers than? Haibo! twitter is sick! And I’m sick of it!

#PureBoring!

#62

Hey man, We Sick Of This Limits okey?

@twitter who ever implemented this limit is probably tha Most Disliked mofacker in tha whole world! I don’t like him! And if I ever know him! I will block him!

#WeSoSickWithIt

#63

Ok, I understand.

#64

Is there a good write up available for researchers who are using the API and doing social network analysis? I have been doing a bunch of high level work related to abuse detection and interdiction, and I want to make sure I am following the rules of the road.

I am doing stuff like …

  1. Capture tweets from select accounts in a given in-group, extract mentions, keep timestamped counts. We’re using this to created force directed graphs with time weighted links, so we can see who is active in discussion at a given time.

  2. Capture latest 3,200 tweets from a number of accounts, scrub them, the apply natural language processing for author attribution. Some of the most aggressive abuse problems out there are group accounts where it’s easy to guess members of the group operating it, but hard to pin down exactly which ones are producing the content.

  3. As soon as I showed the ability to bulk screen capture tweets based on keywords, like mentions of a name, I had two requests to produce content that was going straight to law enforcement.

  4. Capture all available tweets for a given in-group, massage them so the timestamps are easily handled, leading to zip files which researchers then upload to SplunkStorm, a machine data indexing application. This is done for the sake of time slicing content and doing compound searches for various keywords.

This work will eventually morph into more general use, opinion tracking and such, but for the moment it’s getting a serious workout in regards to abusive accounts. Since Twitter is having so much trouble in this area I would hope we get some latitude, but it would be nice to see the details of how similar efforts have been viewed.

#65

Please re-activate thids awsome service of unfollowspy.com

#66

anyone looking for funny character on your twitter account? I just created a list @munchung81/one for your reference. Tribute to @jack my mentor @app_engine @mattcutts @pranavmistry and my partner at hong kong @ggchao

#67

por favor! vuel a activarlo :slight_smile:

#68

I would love to know why my app and my twitter account were suspended. I didnt break any of the guidlines that i could see and i read the rules over 20 times now. its really not fair that you guys suspend people/apps without really telling them why. How do you expect people not to do things again by simply banning them? they need to know WHY so that they know what not to do.