Twitter is Follower Central So Follower Issues Really Sting

July 24, 2008 · Print This Article

The most fundamental feature on Twitter is followers. People’s followers/following relationships is what makes the website’s simple service work. Despite hot competitors like Plurk and FriendFeed, Twitter is still follower central. They are by far the leading microblogging site and many up-and-coming microblogging services and social networks let you import your Twitter friends. New services pretty much have to use Twitter in that way considering Twitter’s community is already so large and so active. As more services launch in the future they will plus try and get their users to import their Twitter friends. that will help to form Twitter a bigger and bigger player in the social networking world. They are quickly becoming a major friend source like Facebook and Gmail.

Recently, Twitter started curbing the number of followers citizens could have so they could attempt to reduce spam. However, these following limits unfairly impact Twitter users like @CreativeSage, @PPRLisa, @MarkDavidson and others. You can read more about that follower limit here on ReadWriteWeb.

Twitter’s lost

follower problems that week may be related to the following limit they recently imposed. Twitter has recovered some of the lost follower goods but many users are still lost as many as 10% to 50% of their followers.

Apparently, they are still working on the issue today. They really need to solve it considering it is that community that makes Twitter what it is. whether the cruicial relationships in that community are disrupted it makes things very complicated for everyone. As Profy.com writes that issue is much worse than Twitter’s omnipresent Fail Whale. You can read another post about Twitter’s huge follower disruption here on TwitterStars.com.

Ironically, on the same day that the massive Twitter follower distruption occurred Twitter’s Ev was blogging about a new service called TwitterCounter that offers follower stats. Twitter knows how urgent followers are and as you can see by Ev’s tweet below they are still trying to solve that latest crisis.