[twitter-dev] Is the "forced follow" really fixed?

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

I have a friend who claims that she needs to unfollow people that she hasn't
followed. Is there still a way someone can force you to follow them? I thought
that had been fixed.

Anybody else seeing this? I don't monitor my following count closely - I
follow and unfollow people but don't really check to see if there are people I
haven't followed.

Is it possible that there are some autofollow services out there that have
"gone rogue?"
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[Dewald Pretorius]

Ed,

What I find is people sometimes forget that they've set up an auto-
follow service to work on their account. Gosh, I get people who sign
up today, and the next day they ask for support because they've
forgotten their password.

These things will be easier to debug for your friend once everyone
uses OAuth, because then she can just check her Connections. Until
then, she will just have to think way back and try and remember if she
has ever set up such a service.

On May 21, 2:10 pm, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <zn...@borasky-