Twitter Followers

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January 5, 2016, 10:11 am

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Has anyone else noticed an issue with sending/receiving twitter followers?

I just checked up on a delivery and after the user's account received a few hundred followers, the account went private. I state in our instructions to the buyer that we are not to be held liable for broken/bad links, changed user names, or private profiles.

The followers roll in at a normal growth rate, but the buyer claimed that he never set his account to private (I don't have a problem sending the followers again, but the account is still private), so we were wondering if it is a new "defense" against someone purchasing followers.

Or perhaps.... the buyer thought they could control the influx of followers and approve them as they pleased?

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DarthHazard

It sounds weird, to be honest, and I haven't heard of it happening to anyone before. I have never done this before I can't say if it actually a regular thing that happens and people just hasn't noticed it. The most obvious thing is that maybe the user decided to stop the sudden inflow of followers and manually approve users over time so that it looked a lot more genuine. But that theory is debunked by the fact that the buyer clearly declined that he had made the account private.

9 years ago

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Barida

Probably it is a new mechanism for people purchasing followers, so I suggest you go into research to discover the reason such might be happening anyway.

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Corzhens

This may be related to the issue of the vanishing Twitter followers that the site is put on hold for its own protection. But I have been thinking if that blocking of new followers is done by the user or by Twitter itself? Facebook has a crackdown on fake numbers of likes and followers so maybe Twitter is doing the same thing? But anyway this is an interesting discussion that I wish there would be updates on the developments.

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