I've added some new sub-categories to the reports.

App Spam

Accounts where more than 50% of their tweets are auto-generated by an application. Examples of this include paper.li, 4sq, blip.fm, RunKeeper, miso etc.

Uses Advertising Networks

Accounts that are being paid to put tweets into their stream. Advertising networks include organisations such as MyLikes, ad.ly, Magpie, Sponsored Tweets, etc.

Self Obsessed

Accounts where more than 50% of the tweets are about themselves. So, either starting their tweets with "I", "Ive", "I'm", "I'd" or retweeting things people have said about them.

Relatively Unpopular

People who follow more than 3.3 times as many people who follow them. Or, put another way, those who have fewer than 30% people following them back. Sometimes this is just because someone likes to follow lots of people, but occasionally it can also show someone (eg spam bots) whose behaviour is offputting or boring, so very few people choose to follow them back.

The Self Obsessed and Relatively Unpopular sub-categories go into a new category, called "Not Very Interesting." It will appear at the bottom of your reports.

As always, this is informational. It's always up to you who you want to follow.

Personally, I follow (& will always follow) a whole bunch of people that appear on my report. Why? Because they're entertaining, informative and I like them. Free will - it's not an accident!

Today someone told me their report didn't appear to be updating.

It took quite some digging to find what was happening (since everything was operating normally) but I finally discovered what the problem was.

We were only updating our records for accounts that had already been flagged to appear on a report.

In other words, we weren't keeping up with how people's behaviour might change over time.

So, commenting out a single bone-headed line of SQL (What was my obviously under-caffeinated brain thinking? What?!? What??!), and voila, everything is now as it should be. It means reports will be slightly slower (in this case, this is a good thing) - but only because we'll now be pulling down much more information from Twitter, which takes time.

The upshot of this? Your reports will now have much, much more detail on them. I ran it on my personal account (@sidawson) and my report went from having 47 people on it to 190 (I've been deliberately leaving them there so I can test the new version)

If you've run a report in, ohh, the last few months, might be worth running it again now.

My apologies for not noticing this sooner. It's all very silly.