Comments on: Qwitter, it hurts…

By: Chris M

Chris M — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:42:42 +0000

That is a big fail, fuck em.

By: Marcia

Marcia — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:15:52 +0000

Qwitter is really a thorn in my side right now. Just like you, I made an innocent tweet yesterday about posting Earth Day resources to my blog. This a.m., 10 qwitter notices in my Inbox. Have been searching for a way to qwit qwitter! How do I do that?

By: Foxinni

Foxinni — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:20:33 +0000

@richard: I recommend you get into twitter. I think that there has been a bit of a boom this year in the amount of usage and new users. Hope to see you on it soon.

@aravind: You might be onto something. The fact that +10 came thought at once was weird. Will keep an eye on any new Qwitters. And yeah… my tweet rocked, imo.

@ig: hey bud. You’re right in thinking that there is no proof that that tweet is why they quit. Some people only log into their accounts once a week and follow very few people… then work through their twitter account like that. So if do happen to have made a bonker of a tweet.. that will piss them off and not be an accurate representation of why they quit. Thanks for the compliment… doing a redesign soon… can’t wait.

By: Ig

Ig — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:21:50 +0000

You say that you got “about 10 emails this morning from Qwitter updating me of people who has unfollowed me due to that tweet.”

How do you know that they quit *because* of that tweet? Qwitter claims to just show you who quit, and *after* which tweet they quit. That’s correlation, not causation, and you will know that those two are not the same.

Besides, I thought that was a quite a good article.

ps: very well designed site you have here.

By: aravind

aravind — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:31:15 +0000

You cannot trust Quitter!
I hadn’t got any quitter notification since mid march and suddenley yesterday I got 10+ mails. All the mails said the followers unfollowed after a tweet that was just a retweet, and it had nothing to do to cause a kind of mass unfollow!
I think even quitter has some problem with API calls..

By: Richard Catto

Richard Catto — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:15:45 +0000

Good article. Glad you blogged about it, because I’m subscribed to your blog feed (and now also your twitter).

I don’t use twitter much myself.