webrampage

Twitter has been acting very buggy lately. It started with the number of tweets and listing going missing yesterday around 6pm which was later resolved eventually.

Now just a few minutes ago users are reporting that its showing they’re following zero accounts and the number of followers is zero too.

One of the very first users to inform me about this situation was @koridrumz:

@momosuxx why does it say I have zero followers in addition to following 0 people???

I did not believe this was an issue all over Twitter until I noticed it on my profile too. I just scanned my timeline and it seems like everyone is tweeting about this. So, if you’re one of them then don’t worry because you’re not the only one.

For now there’s been no official updates about this from Twitter. Let’s sit back and see what’s going on. At least for once now (almost) everyone is equal on Twitter.

Update: The issue seems to have been resolved now. Some further digging shows me that this issue happened about 3 months ago too.

So, apparently Twitter just removed a major feature from their website. I logged in to find my lists and the number of my tweets missing. My first thought was that it was a glitch, but after further inspection it turns out that there are no more lists on twitter. I took this snapshot showing the lack of lists a little earlier:

Well let me start off by saying that this can be a step in the right direction for Twitter. The website has been getting a lot of traffic and resulting in frequent visits from the “failwhale” and the newly introduced “failrobot.” Removing the list feature might help relieve the tension on Twitter’s servers and allow a better tweeting experience for everyone.

Let’s face it: Having lists was not THAT big of a deal, as most people used them as ways to gain followers. We’ll just have to wait and see how the twitter experience will improve after this change was made. There’s just one thing: People that used lists effectively will be disappointed. Now there will be no way of tracking tweets from a specific group of people and having them in a convenient and easy to manage list. Let’s just hope that twitter will add some sort of new feature that can helps users to sort their followers and track tweets from a specific group of tweeters.

Update: Looks like the lists and number of tweets are back. That was weird. Well then again its Twitter. Stability is not something they’re big fans of.

Everyone say hi to the “FailRobot” – its the FailWhale v2. I’m sure you’ve seen this little guy every now and then, and not so much of the good ol’ FailWhale.

I’ve been getting this error every other second these days. It all started after they rolled out their little “mutual friends” list feature. Maybe Twitter’s tiny little servers can’t handle all the new extra processing. Maybe.

Maybe it wasn’t a wise decision on Twitter’s part to roll it out before making their service stable. Maybe?

Lets just hope we don’t see this guy around too often. Doesn’t look too good for Twitter.