BUG: Did you know that you can't follow users with custom usernames?

[zhengkaitaken]

Hello Spotify Community!

While exploring the Spotify platform, I realized that you can't unfollow users with custom usernames. Feel free to check out these users with custom usernames - you can't unfollow them!

When trying to unfollow them via the Spotify API - we receive the following error: 

{
    "error" : {
    "status" : 500,
    "message" : "Server error."
}

This is especially odd (and slightly annoying!), and I hope that Spotify will patch this up soon 🙂

[Prague]

Waggin' hello to you zhengkaitaken!
That is incredible, you're 100 right on both statements. I'll tag this post up and Float the Topic, it needs to be seen!
Not to be hounding you, but please keep me in the loop!

-Prague the Dog

[Prague]

Here is a related topic that got some attention but its not exactly the same issue. 

Solved: Spotify unfollowing users/profiles - The Spotify Community

[Alex]

Hi there @zhengkaitaken,

Thanks for the post and for flagging this issue with us.

Looks like all of these profiles have some special characters in their usernames, which are most likely causing the issue. I've passed this on to the right tech folks at Spotify 🙂 

I'll post here as soon as I have more info on the matter.

[Alex]

Hi there @zhengkaitaken,

We've received word that the right folks from the developer teams have been informed about this issue 🙂

Cheers.