Comments on: More Pointless Twitteries Plus A Coffin Nail

By: 1234test.com

1234test.com — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:28:00 +0000

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By: Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:19:32 +0000

Thanks!

By: JackP

JackP — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:08:40 +0000

@Boris, the “pointless” thing is possibly a bit unfair: it’s just really that I like to find new twitter-related apps and have a little look/play with them. I suspect for the majority of people, it’s a “just for fun” thing (like the majority of facebook apps) but you’re right – for some people, it is likely to be a useful tool.

Well done anyway, it’s a fun thing to look at

By: Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:57:32 +0000

Hi, I’m the founder of TwitterCounter and enjoyed your review! A lot of people like to see the influence that certain actions have on their follower counts over time. TwitterCOunter can show that. Unfortunately there is a bug in the Twitter API which screws up some of the follower counts. It is not a huge problem as counts might be off only slightly but it can be very annoying if you want to show accurate stats.

Twitter is aware of the bug and working on the fix though.

I still hope you enjoy TwitterCounter and also take a look at the TwitterRemote and TwitterCounter badges which are good additions to any blog (this one? and can be very useful if you want to gain more followers.

Anyway, keep up the blog so we can enjoy your critical but humorous posts…

By: JackP

JackP — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:46:36 +0000

Mike, my count is a lot more accurate now, but I don’t see how killing off spam accounts would have made a difference to the count of people I followed, as I didn’t follow any spammers in the first place.

Plus when my count went awry, it somehow got set to exactly double what it should have been – which made it seem to me like a computational/programming glitch. And then, once set to that, followers were added one by one normally.

So I presume they just did a ‘full recount’ for everyone and that flushed out whatever the glitch had been…

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:59:00 +0000

re: #2, you’re no doubt aware than Twitter killed off a vast number of spambots in the past couple of days which were skewing peoples follower counts. The suggestion is that your count should be a bit more accurate now – might be worth a check.
Also, if not, feel free to add your voice to http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/topics/my_followers_numbers_dont_match