Fortunately it only affected a couple users, but I'd like to make it up to them. BTW, this didn't affect the mass unfollow feature you saw Scoble and others using (that would have worked fine). This affected the "unfollow those who unfollow me" feature. We have safety valves in place as well, but there are still a few users that get through that. Jesse
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Jesse, > > Last night when this thing hit I actually immediately thought about > you and wondered how it impacted you. > > I'm now thanking my lucky stars that I don't do mass unfollow. I do > have the "unfollow those who unfollow me" feature, but I have limited > it to a maximum of 10 unfollows every 8 hours, even if the API said > that more people have unfollowed the user. That safety valve has > seriously saved my butt this time. > > Dewald > > On Sep 5, 3:06 pm, Jesse Stay <jesses...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Again, I can't stress this enough - when bugs like this are introduced, > it > > is imperative that follow limits are also removed temporarily (or on a > > case-by-case basis) so we can make this up to our users. I've already > had > > to issue refunds to a couple due to this. If you need me to send you the > > usernames John let me know. > > Jesse >
