If you have been on Twitter in the last 48 hours you have seen how frustrating it is when you to follow someone and can´t. Follower counts are not accurate. Here is what Twitter has said on Tuesday and Wednesday about it:
(June 23) We’re working to reduce the amount of time it takes for new follower/followings to take effect. Right now, after you follow or unfollow someone it may take some time for that action to be properly recorded and propagated throughout the system. As a result, you may run into discrepancies such as:
* follower and following counts are off
* new followings not showing up in your timeline
* seeing that you can follow someone you’ve already followed
We’re planning several upgrades to address these issues and will post more as we make progress.
Update (3:03p): Other inconsistencies in addition to the above also exist:
* device notification changes for followers (choosing whose updates you get on your phone)
* favoriting and unfavoriting of individual tweets
Update (June 24)
The upgrades we performed earlier today were successful. This will allow us to catch up on the delayed following and follower actions that have caused a lot of inconsistency over the last several days.
We anticipate that this catch-up period will last for at least another 6-12 hours and during that time inconsistencies will persist. This means that if you follow someone right now or are followed by someone, the change will not take affect immediately. We’re hopeful that over the next several hours these issues will resolve.
Let´s hope this is not something that will happen often – keep on tweeting. Remember it is sweet to retweet!
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