---
title: "Re-syncing Twitter"
author: "Christopher S Penn"
date: 2008-06-09
url: https://www.christopherspenn.com/2008/06/re-syncing-twitter/
categories:
  - "Twitter"
tags:
  - "Twitter"
---

# Re-syncing Twitter

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For fun, I logged into Twitter tonight and checked the followers page. To my great surprise, it seems as though about half of the people I thought I was following are not, so it's an evening of re-syncing Twitter to follow friends old and new who I thought I was in sync with. The scale of it almost makes me think that Twitter did a database rollback of some kind. Very strange. I'm also taking the [Chris Brogan](https://www.chrisbrogan.com) philosophy of Twitter following, too. Unless you're an obvious spambot, I'll follow back whether or not I think you've got anything of value to say. This is the surest way to de-fuse the criticism that I follow some and not others (and yes, some people have actually said that!) - by devaluing my Twitterstream to near uselessness, I achieve equality of everyone's voice. No one's voice is greater than anyone else's, because I can't hear any of it. Not that I could anyway, with Twitter's reliability being in the toilet lately. Short summary: if you suddenly got a notice saying I was following you, this is why - re-syncing Twitter. **Did you enjoy this blog post? If so, please subscribe right now!**[![](https://www.christopherspenn.com/btn-email.png)](https://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=761786) [![](https://www.christopherspenn.com/btn-google.png)](https://www.google.com/ig/add?feedurl=https://feeds.feedburner.com/ChristopherSPenn) [![](https://www.christopherspenn.com/btn-rss.png)](https://feeds.feedburner.com/ChristopherSPenn)Get this and other great articles from the source at [www.ChristopherSPenn.com](https://www.ChristopherSPenn.com)[![Zemanta Pixie](https://img.zemanta.com/reblog_c.png?x-id=00f1e6a5-aca9-49bc-9cf1-532966c82c22)](https://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/00f1e6a5-aca9-49bc-9cf1-532966c82c22/ "Zemified by Zemanta")