Comments on: TweetEffect – find out when people followed or left you on Twitter

By: Els

Els — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:37:19 +0000

Never mind – just figured that one out I think; it seems they don’t use the API for the history, but just track today’s via the API and accumulate their own data.

By: Els

Els — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:18:20 +0000

I see. Wonder where twittercounter get their data from? Are there different APIs?
http://twittercounter.com/?username=locusmeus&chart=all

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:09:26 +0000

@Els, yes it does. I am not getting any magical data here, all I am using is what twitter gives me, in your case this data. Seems like there is a lag in the API to get changes.

By: Els

Els — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:14:56 +0000

Seems to work nicely for random accounts I check, but the detailed report for my own account (@locusmeus) claims that I’ve always had 16 followers, right from the beginning, no ups or downs. In reality, I started with 0 followers, and it’s been going up gradually since then, with 3 or 4 people unfollowing me along the way. Does the script work for people who’ve had less than 200 tweets?

By: Jonathan Snook

Jonathan Snook — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:59:16 +0000

Cool idea. Another site is Twitterless.com which does a bunch of follower tracking, including when people stop following you.