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"Technical problems."
"Following" and "unfollowing" are pretty basic aspects of the service. How interesting that the "technical problems" only have to do with these specific accounts.
Anything under Meta (FB, Insta, WhatsApp), Twitter/X, TikTok - you should be considering these to be fascist mouthpieces and interpret information gained through them with that lens.
Personally I believe them only because meta has proven to be incompetent time and time again. I’m betting they migrated the followers to the new account, but forgot to update some foreign key and now it errors out when the old code tries to unfollow.
The malice though is in doing this new migration scheme instead of the old method of “update the profile picture and bio”.
I'd expect more broken things if that were the case?
Depends on how carefully they follow separation of concerns, I suppose. I’ve seen errors exactly like this before where old data couldn’t be deleted but new data could be deleted without issue.
To be clear, I am not defending them, nor am I entirely writing off the zuckbot doing this on purpose. Just without further evidence, it is easy for me to assume they are incompetent.
There are local servers all around the world. You generally interact with the one closest to you, but it isn't the "single source of truth." At some point changes should be reconciled with the source authority, but all the remote servers are trying to update the source at pretty much the same time. Resolving updates from your global diaspora of servers in an accurate manner is hard and you're likely to see odd bugs arise, especially when a large number of people take similar actions at once. You can see this in trending viral video likes--toggling your like on and off or viewing the video at the same time from 2 different locations is likely to give you a different like count each time. You can also see this when Trump rebrands the official POTUS account and starts spewing his vitriol through it, large numbers of people will realize they don't want to deal with his bull shit, and some of their updates will fail to resolve in a timely manner.
This doesn't happen to everyone, but if you unfollow someone and it works you aren't gonna complain.
Also never forget that Traitorapist Trump told 30800 documented lies in his first term, which comes out to 20-25 lies every day of the week. So we can expect that 20-25 lies are going to come out of Trump's mouth every single day for the next 4 years.