Neil Shearing’s Internet Marketing Strategies

Did you lose a substantial number of Twitter followers overnight?

I did. Down from 150ish to 76. I noticed that Ed Dale is down from 7,000+ to under 5,000. Joel Comm was almost at 2,500 and is now at under 2,000.

Searching Twitter found these recent comments…

“i went from 71 to 27 followers and im only following 17 now instead of like 30 somthn”

“I guess I’ve been a little boring recently. My followers has just plunged from 44 to 35! ”

“I lost three quarters of my followers/following. Added a few back. Will now wait and hope twitter will resolve problem. ”

“I shed more than 350 followers, including some real people.”

Twitter officially say,

“We’re still in the process of recovering from the missing follower/following problem that occurred earlier today. Over the next several hours, you may see inaccurate counts or timeline inconsistencies as the correct data is propagated to all parts of the system.

One thing to note: Even after this recovery is complete, your counts may appear lower than previously. In almost all cases, this is not due to missing data. The counts we display on your profile page are not always up-to-date. For example, when we remove spammers from the system (which we’ve been doing a lot lately), the follower counts are not updated in real-time.

As we push out the changes to fix this afternoon’s problem, the counts will be updated to reflect the latest numbers.”

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