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Count limits lifted

March 13, 2009 – 10:41 am

We have removed the cap on the total number of friends and followers, so you can now try to analyze any Twitter user on Twitual. We will warn you, however, that with very large friend + follower counts, the process of fetching all of the information can be slow. To give you a general idea, [...]

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Seen Elsewhere

March 9, 2009 – 12:00 pm

Over the past few days, a couple of other sites noticed Twitual: The Musem of Modern Betas KillerStartups Have you seen us mentioned anywhere else? Let us know!

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Bugs fixed, limit raised

March 7, 2009 – 4:24 pm

After the initial public announcement of Twitual, things took off pretty well. Unfortunately, we discovered a sporadic bug that was causing us to sometimes get into a never-ending loop requesting information from Twitter, and resulting in “Twitter Overload” errors on our site. We’ve identified and corrected that problem, so if you were having trouble before, [...]

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Welcome to Twitual!

March 4, 2009 – 4:50 pm

Welcome to Twitual, a service which explores the intersection and differences between your Twitter friends and followers. Which of your friends follow you back? Which ones don’t? Who is following you that you aren’t following back? We can show you. The service is currently in ‘alpha’ status, which means that it is still in an [...]

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