Apr 142010
 

It seems Twitter has strong armed Dossy's Twitter Karma and Huitter's Mutuality service out of providing the bulk unfollow function on Twitter. It was very useful for those trying to grow their Twitter following. You could bulk unfollow those who were not following you and fill those available slots with new followings hoping that some of them would follow you in return. This follow – wait a few days – bulk unfollow and then rinse and repeat worked very well for growing your Twitter following. Well Twitter didn't like that and seems to have succeeded in blocking these two popular services from bulk unfollowing. What to do now? Unfollowing one person at a time is way too much work and [Read More ...]

Oct 262009
 

You can't live with Twitter, you can't live without. While Twitter is a very potent communication medium, organizationally, it is a chaotic company. Quite often it seems the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is up to. Most perplexing is Twitter's indiscriminate suspension of accounts. You will have a long standing account with thousands of followers and one fine day without warning of any sort, you'll find your account suspended. Why? Nobody knows. You may open a support ticket but all you'll get is a form letter listing 1500 reasons why you could have been suspended. You may reply to it and Twitter promises to respond within 30 days. In most cases they don't. It happened to a [Read More ...]

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