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Mark Manning replied on August 16, 2009 21:16 to the problem "Twitter not very functional via Web page; blocking fails via all platforms tried" in Twitter:

I've just tried various browsers on Mac OSX 10. Safari & Opera work fine with Twitter, but Firefox/Mac OSX is just like all the browsers I've tried on Windows. For what it's worth, my Windows is XP.

Mark Manning replied on August 16, 2009 20:46 to the problem "Twitter not very functional via Web page; blocking fails via all platforms tried" in Twitter:

I've just rebooted Windows and tried the Maxthon browser, which I believe is based on Internet Explorer, some less-than-current version most likely. Anyway, all these problems persist there as well. Everything's just as screwed up as it was this morning when I first posted about this problem.

Mark Manning reported a problem in Twitter on August 16, 2009 15:39:

Twitter not very functional via Web page; blocking fails via all platforms tried

Various problems this morning with Twitter. Some followers saying they have similar issues: Can't DM, tweet, or follow using Twitter Web page (Opera or Flock -- latest versions); can't block suspected spammers on any platform. Following works intermittently for me using Web page, but not for others apparently.

Mark Manning replied on February 03, 2009 02:00 to the question "Why does my home show people I'm NOT following?" in Twitter:

The same thing happens to me on Flock. I even tried to block one of the people I no longer want to see, which might not have been such a good idea -- especially since it didn't even work.

Mark Manning started following the question "Why does my home show people I'm NOT following?" in Twitter.

Mark Manning asked a question in Twitter on February 03, 2009 01:58:

Why do people who I no longer follow still appear in my timeline?

Why do people I no longer follow still appear in my timeline?

Mark Manning replied on July 15, 2008 01:42 to the problem "Blocked user still listed on my followers as blocked" in Twitter:

Hi,

I had cathy233 appear on my followers list this morning about 4:30AM. Blocked her at 4:31AM, whereupon she disappeared from the list.

Also blocked debbie565 successfully then as well.

It's odd that these profiles don't have the same kind of "stickiness" for everyone who's posted to this thread. Perhaps there's something in the code used by these spammers that gets "stickier" the longer you wait before you block them? Seems implausible, but it's the only guess I've got right offhand.

At any rate, the only fake follower who won't disappear for me is novelwrite.

Mark Manning replied on July 12, 2008 11:49 to the problem "Blocked user still listed on my followers as blocked" in Twitter:

Hi,
Interesting to learn about the one-spammer-at-a-time error reported by bossross_2063. That's not how "my" spammers' profiles are behaving, though.

By the way, Katie's little spam-crushing trick, mentioned above, didn't work for me.

Mark Manning replied on July 06, 2008 12:18 to the problem "Blocked user still listed on my followers as blocked" in Twitter:

Hi,

I'm trying Katie Parry's idea now. Actually, I thought that was more or less what I was doing when the Twitter Help page redirected me here to GetSatisfaction.com.

Personally, I'd like to see a couple of changes to Twitter that might deal with this problem a bit better:
1) Allow people to opt into only allowing approved followers. I wouldn't like this as the default option, but it'd be a nice feature to add.
2) Require profiles that follow large numbers of people to have lots of followers as well. Concretely, to follow between 100 and 200 people, I think you should need to have at least half as many followers as people you follow. To follow more than 200 people, you should need more followers than people you follow. Spam be gone!

Mark Manning replied on July 04, 2008 14:47 to the problem "Blocked user still listed on my followers as blocked" in Twitter:

Hi,
I've successfully deleted dozens of fakes, including ringernation, a whole bunch of differently numbered chickas, and selord. But now I can't get novelwrite out of my follower page. It says I can unblock him there, but why do I even have to have him show as a follower when he's been blocked?

Mark Manning replied on April 28, 2008 02:38 to the problem "Where's that confirmation email, folks?" in Profilactic:

Just for comparison's sake, the Get Satisfaction confirmation email arrived at my email inbox in one or two seconds. It's been 20 minutes, give or take, since I signed up with Profilactic, but that email hasn't arrived yet. I've sent an email to feedback@profilactic.com, asking you to add me in manually when you get a chance. Is that possible as a workaround?

Mark Manning reported a problem in Profilactic on April 28, 2008 02:29:

Where's that confirmation email, folks?

How can I get a confirmation email sent to me? Neither signing up nor hitting the "Send me another confirmation email" link worked.