Comments on: Twollow Sucks

By: Courtenay Probert

Courtenay Probert — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:47:43 +0000

I’ve written a ruby script that is similar to twollow. It’s free, so feel free to download if your interesting in this type of functionality: code.google.com/p/flamingo/

Feedback would be welcome.

By: Stickman Games

Stickman Games — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 18:41:50 +0000

Haven’t heard of twollow before. But after reading your post,i’m avoid it altogether. Thanks for saving our time :)
Stickman Games recently blogged – Tactical Assassin 2

By: tina

tina — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:16:57 +0000

Once again, dissapointment. tweetadder, twollow, who doesn’t suck?

By: Jasmine

Jasmine — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:11:26 +0000

It’s disappointing indeed to hear that you had no response from Twollow regarding your problem.

However regarding your issue of getting “stuck” at 2000 followers, that’s nothing to do with Twollow.

Twitter (for good reason) has some methods for preventing ‘aggressive’ and unbalanced following.

There is a ratio those you follow to those that follow you that if you don’t meet, means the number of users you can follow will be capped at 2000.

There’s plenty about this online if you care to look.

I used Twollow very successfully for a number of accounts.

I know that instantly block people who follow me who have a high number of followers against a low number of friends. It’s pretty obvious it’s not a very genuine – or very interesting account.

So I use Twollow to follow people with relevant interests – ie alert them of our existence – but if they don’t follow back, then I remove them.

Thus, I can keep the follower to friend ratio in a good and logical place, build relationships with genuinely interested users and build up to gaining 2000+ mutual followers in a relatively short time compared to how long that would take not using Twollow.

All for a measly £70-odd quid. One of the best tools I’ve ever used in terms of commercial effectiveness for time and money outlaid.

I also used Refollow for managing relationships and easily culling the non-mutuals, but seems they are having some problems with the ratios and prevented from using Twitter oAuth.

Twollow is obviously doing something right as they’re still in business ratio wise. But not responding to paying customers is very, very wrong.

That sucks Twollow. I was about to recommend you to a big client. But I’ll see if you answer me first.

By: Rachael Towne

Rachael Towne — Mon, 23 May 2011 21:37:26 +0000

I am going through trying to get a refund from Twollow right now. I signed up for the $14.99 subscription. Well, apparently my account was never activated since I can’t get ANYTHING to happen when I log in and try to make the service work.

I sent emails to customer service and of course no response. So, I canceled my subscription and filed a PayPal dispute. No response! I have just escalated it to a claim demanding my initial $14.99 refunded.

We will see…

By: Stephanie Rolfe

Stephanie Rolfe — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:47:36 +0000

When I signed up for twitter in 2009, I used Twollow quite effectively, but now I see Twollow is no longer free, forget about it!

By: SMO Blogger

SMO Blogger — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:05:51 +0000

No reflection on you at all, Dominic. Appreciate all your work developing Twollow. The hard part is creating the app, it seems. Fixing customer service should be a much easier job for Twollow. They may yet accomplish this task. Thanks for dropping by.

By: Dominic St-Pierre

Dominic St-Pierre — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:48:05 +0000

Wow, I find it sad to read this after couple of years out of this product!

I’m Dominic St-Pierre, the original owner of twollow (when it was a free tool / service). I had so much fun building it and saw it grow from 1K users to about 17K when I have sold it. I never been able to re-produce that feeling of having so much people watching and commenting on my weekly (even daily) updates.

Sounds like my customer support were way better even though the service were free. Sorry to hear that.

I remember a day when I released a broken version and immediately got tweets about it and was eating with my wife and two kids, I took 2-3 pieces and said “I have to go fix twollow, be back later.”. I guess I am a bit “nostalgic” to had pass away a really nice product I had.

Have a nice day! (Sorry for my English)

Dominic

By: Larry

Larry — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 16:48:05 +0000

I signed up for Twollow, and paid the fee and my account was never activated, despite repeated emails to their support. Really a scam! I called my credit card company and had the charge removed. Paypal gave me the same 555 number – BIG SCAM!

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:27:17 +0000

I have sent numerous emails to Twollow customer service. Never got any replies. I paid them through a PayPal account so I contacted Paypal and used their web form to cancel my subscription. For reasons I never understood, every month twollow kept hitting my account. Today I finally got into PayPal CS and they claimed I had TWO twollow accounts. That’s news to me! The Paypal records show that I did cancel a subscription. Paypal gave me what they said was the phone number for twollow. Turns out it is an information line for the 506 area code. 506 555-1212 Somebody is committing fraud here.