I would have built in something like doing an array diff before doing any unfollow, and if the diff is 10%+ of the old followers list, then just bail and do nothing.
Even the mass unfollow would not have worked, if the API returned only 5,000 friends instead of the full list, correct? Dewald On Sep 5, 3:35 pm, Jesse Stay <jesses...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
