Twitter quickly needs to figure out how to let real friends authenticate their interest in really following real people because this anti-spam algorithm being used right now is anti-social. - Bernie Goldbach

He's back - sort of. He can't follow anyone. http://twitter.com/tibbon - Ontario Emperor

He's not alone: http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter... I follow some of the people that got deleted and they were certainly not spammers! Is there still hope for Twitter? :( - Alja Sulcic

This is bad on many levels: It sucks to see my friend get screwed. It sucks more to see this happen to many people. And, ultimately, we'll stay. Now, what can we do as users to either a) vocalize our collective irritation, or b) migrate somewhere else? Can we mass-migrate? We would need leaders with balls... People with lots of followers, willing to urge them to go elsewhere. Chris, do you have balls? - Dan Patterson

This is starting to sound like another story of grasping failure from the jaws of success. - Rob Diana

@Dan - that's actually why I went to check out Jaiku. Thing is, there's no summize. There's no way to slice and dice the stories, so for someone with a larger audience (me), I can't accurately *see* everyone, and that sucks. So for ME, the requirements of shifting are: SMS or a 3rd party client, a way to see who's talking about what (robust search with RSS options), and ideally, a way to port social graphs (but I'm not holding my breath on the last one). - Chris Brogan

Yup, my twitter account was deleted. No word why yet. - Connie Crosby

@tibbon's got a good post up on how Twitter *should have* responded http://twurl.nl/zj3odp - Clay Newton

victims include @conniecrosby @pfanderson @narain @skalik @marjanpanic @davedelaney at a minimum - Patricia F. Anderson

Chris, have you explored Identi.ca more? I'm REALLY pleased so far ... no SMS yet, but there's track through IM, robust search, and integration with Posty and Twhirl. New features + apps everyday. MOST important: it's open source and federated, so YOU own your data, and WE can fix bugs instead of waiting a year for someone else to. - Marina Martin from Posty

I follow Jyri on twitter; he's one of the guys who started Jaiku, which was sold to Google. It sounds like Google is close to integrating it, so there might be some movement there soon. In the pre-sale days, Jaiku went straight to Google so I'd search there, and this probably still works. I wouldn't dismiss Jaiku just yet. - Linda Mills

Other things about Jaiku that I guess few knew: they had groups from almost the beginning, and the on/off features of what you could see, much like how it is on FriendFeed, was always part of the service. I only wish they'd let more people in so they could see for themselves... - Linda Mills

Any word from twitter about what exactly happened? Why these users were selected? Why they were reinstated? No info on the twitter status page. http://status.twitter.com/ - Steve Garfield

hmmmm, not good. These services have way too much power to delete people. - Robert Scoble

The question is: can we keep up the noise until @biz and @ev have to respond appropriately? - Neil Weisenfeld

I see lots of people migrating to identi.ca.. good service. i'm on there as unclr as well - Roger R

WHY did this happen? Twitter is shooting themselves in the foot repeatedly lately... I seriously question their Management abilities to run twitter. They lack so many fundamental customer service and IT web app dev mgmt skills it's scary. I only use twitter occasionally as I, and many others, have happily migrated over to Identi.ca where they really seem to care about their users and release new features very often (also real open to suggestions). Check it out --> http://identi.ca/susanbeebe - Susan Beebe

The concept of "OpenMicroBlogging" needs support from the likes you all. Twitter, FriendsFeed etc. are private gardens where the owners can do as they like. Read this critique by Fidler -- http://bit.ly/3IP9VY ; we need to strengthen the "Open Network Service" idea. As leaders you can make a difference. - tom sparks

Know what's silly about identi.ca ? There's no easy "Chris is being followed by" page so I can figure out who I haven't added back. C'mon. Make it easier for me to build relationships (again) please. - Chris Brogan

It looks like Twitter employees are joining the conversation over on Get Satisfaction - http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter... - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Same thing happened to me... for no reason at all. They claim I violated the TOS... but I'm just a normal user here... - http://getanewbrowser.com/2008... - andy brudtkuhl

Chris, there is a page that shows who is following you, linked from your profile page: http://identi.ca/chrisbr... Are you looking for a list of people who are following you that you don't follow back? I think that would be convenient, too... especially in reverse chronological order. - Evan Prodromou

@Evan - that's exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for. In Twitter speak there used to be Twitter Karma, and that would say something like, "People following you that you're not following." That's the feature I'm hoping for. - Chris Brogan