Twitter Admits to Software Bug
The Telegraph broke the story today, saying that “thousands of users have been tweeting about their experiences of the ‘unfollow’ bug and their reaction to it.”
Twitter’s response? Nothing at first, and then they finally posted a short statement (barely exceeds 140 characters) on the Twitter Help Center:
Bug alert:
A person you've recently followed shows in your following tab, but appears with a follow icon so it looks like you're not following them, as shown in the image below. Visit their profile if you'd like to confirm you're following them. Engineers are working to resolve the issues listed above. Thanks for your patience.
So what happened? We don’t know yet, but we do know the Twitter has a long history of software quality and performance problems. We’re all familiar with the Twitter “Fail Whale,” as described in the Blackliszt blog post.
Searching on LinkedIn’s Twitter job postings, there doesn’t seem to be much demand for test engineers to help them avoid these problems. You are in luck, however, if you’re a developer or in sales. Perhaps some of the Twitter management should subscribe to popular testing tweeters.
