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[Closed] Twitter - "contaminated" Following

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Help required please?

Don't know if this has been done before, but my 'following' appears to have been abused in some way. I am now following literally hundreds of people that I have not chosen to follow.

Anybody know how this happens? Some sort of hack?

I've spent the last 30+ minutes 'unfollowing' hundreds. Q weird particularly as many of them tweet in Arabic or Chinese so not much use to my twitter interest.


 
Posted : 25/04/2014 5:09 pm
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I had this. Changed my password and it fixed it.


 
Posted : 25/04/2014 5:11 pm
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Those sites that offer to get you new followers ? This is how they do it. Add. Above, change your password.


 
Posted : 25/04/2014 5:15 pm
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Thanks. I'll try that it's a bit weird.
Looking at some of these people they follow a handful of people yet have tens of thousands of followers. Are they buying them I some way? (Which would be kind of deluded)


 
Posted : 25/04/2014 5:17 pm
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Thanks for the advice. I've removed over 500 rogue tweeter accounts that I had been 'following'. Ultimately it will backfire on twitter as peoples feeds will be full of stuff that they have little or no interest in. Muppets.


 
Posted : 25/04/2014 8:04 pm
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I deleted my account when that happened, hadn't used it for months anyway. They followed a load of Arabic folk and favourited a couple of tweets.

Very odd, didn't seem malicious that I could tell.


 
Posted : 25/04/2014 8:55 pm
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Yep njee, was very tempted to do the same.


 
Posted : 25/04/2014 9:16 pm