Hi all I've been getting a lot of mails telling me people are following me, but when I click to take a look at the person I am not being followed by them.
At first I just assumed this was some kind of eventual consistency issue with Twitter and that the web interface was showing the person with a slightly out of date follower list. When I check with the API I also don't see the person as following me. I've seen this (I guess) 20 times in the last few days. I'm wondering what's going on. Is it just spammers (or others) creating accounts, following many people, then immediately unfollowing? I also read about the StalkDaily worm, so (if the worm exists and works as described) I suppose if you wanted to infect people you could create new accounts and then just follow/unfollow people. See http://kodespark.tumblr.com/post/95149076/the-stalkdaily-worm-on-twitter Often twitter.com with show the person who's apparently following (but isn't or no longer is) as following a high numeric number, but the number of little icons of people they're following will be much much smaller. That, I think, is just Twitter not having caught up with itself. Anyway, I'm just commenting out loud, and wondering whether others are seeing this. I imagine it must be widespread. Terry
