Twitter May Have Found Cure to Outages
Humor July 23rd, 2008
It’s really simple: with less users Twitter won’t go down that often, and that’s exactly what’s happening: users complain left and right about losing followers:
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primesuspect: wait what did I miss? Most of my following/followers list is gone…. wtf.
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88michael: WHAT!? Why did my followers count suddenly drop to 47? I had around 570 before. Must be a Twitter glitch! At least I hope it is.half a minute ago · Reply · View Tweet -
themanuel: @peterurban Yeah something must be wrong. I´ve lost almost 100 Followers. Hope the spammers.half a minute ago · Reply · View Tweet -
lockerhaxor:
I only have 41 followers suddenly? Big drop off from the 60some I had earlier today…half a minute ago · Reply · View Tweet -
WhataTrip: Very strange…my following & followers say 9 today! wtf happened?half a minute ago · Reply · View Tweet -
ArtByChrysti: Lost alot of followers, and people i’m following too. Message me if I haven’t you got back yet.less than a minute ago · Reply · View Tweet -
ChrisGrover: Twitter just F’ed me. It dropped all my followings and followers? help.less than a minute ago · Reply · View Tweet -
RonenKauffman: Wondering where half of my follwing and half of my followers went, all in one fell swoop. Is Twitter spazzing out?less than a minute ago · Reply · View Tweet -
DaVinciDeb: @RobMcNealy Lost almost all my followers on Twitter.Have you ever had that issue.You don’t show up as a follower so can you add me again -
abiteofsanity: @GeekMommy These aren’t the followers you’re looking for…1 minute ago · Reply · View Tweet -
kennelco: something has happened to my twitter account — following and followers all lost1 minute ago · Reply · View Tweet
Creative solution… 
Update: OK, there’s an explanation for all this… but hey, if they get all followers back, there goes the stability gain… LOL:
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.
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Zoli Erdos
a lot of lessons in the twitter drama …
money and brains not enough to solve the problems immediately
hooking everyone to everyone every/anytime is a huge challenge
the desire for human expression is greater than frustration at being unable to
collecting followers is like collecting the full set, the number has more importance than the content
what have your learned from this?
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I too was down near zero and not have them all back. YEA! Twitter really has a rotten IT staff or provider it seems. This is worse than Linked 2 months ago.
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My twitter experience with Twitter since their recent outage has been great. After the database down there was a brief period when the follows and followers vanished for a while, but kudos to Twitter team for restoring everything back to normal.
Twitter is growing really fast, and I am sure that Twitter team is doing its best. We should cut them some slack for a change.
Thank you @Twitter team for a great service.
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