Twitter Deleted My Following and Followers #FAIL

By Steve Armenti | July, 18, 2011 | 4 comments

What the hell Twitter, seriously?? Where did all my Followers and Following go… I’m so close to dropping you forever and putting all my effort into getting a Google+ account. Google never played me like this. Here I am just sitting around getting my social media activity going and all of a sudden my followers and following numbers are gone. Down to zero. I couldn’t believe it. After all my hardwork of retweeting and interacting with folks on Twitter, my followers were gone and so were the people I was following.

UPDATE: I could not find any logical reasoning as to why this happening, however, maybe 10-15 minutes later my Followers and Following was restored. After it happened I went right to Twitter search and sure enough tons of people were having the same problem. My final conclusion is that it was an error on Twitter’s end. If yours did not restore I’d recommend hitting up Twitter @Support or visiting http://support.twitter.com. Hope that helps and thank you for reading my rant.

If you took the time to read this babble, you might actually like some of my other stuff:

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4 Responses to Twitter Deleted My Following and Followers #FAIL

  • wgfoodie

    just happened to me :( how did you fix it?

    • Steve A

      I just added an update to the post, but it basically fixed itself. I assume it was a Twitter whale error.

  • kyli kesinger

    It just happened to me, it didn’t fix itself so i started re-following everybody again it did it AGAIN the next day, i made a new twitter and it did it to that one too. Any suggestions?

    • Steve Armenti

      When it happened to me it basically fixed itself. But I heard of it happening to several people. I would recommend sending a message to Twitter support (@support).

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