April Fool’s Day was last Thursday, right? Thought so but AdvisorTweets got punked early this morning.

If you came to the site, saw our Twitter page or subscribe to a service that notifies you about un-follows, you might be interested in hearing why AdvisorTweets just upped and un-followed everybody today–everybody but @MarcusGrooms (for reasons we don’t know).

I would have taken a screenshot of the sparkling white site but the look of it gave me the same feeling I had when I saw that blender shred the iPad earlier in the week. Now, that’s not right!

So, here’s what our developers say happened, based on our log files. An Alexa robot landed on the site and somehow spidered its way into our admin page, which was somehow exposed (not anymore, it isn’t!). The admin is our control center, where we add and subtract (rarely) advisors to the site.

Once on the admin page, the robot started following links. It systematically un-followed every darn advisor we’ve painstakingly added to the site since September–with the exception of @MarcusGrooms, who was singlehandedly bearing the advisor flag on AdvisorTweets most of the day.

Luckily, we know who we follow so we manually added names back. It will take the counter a while to climb back up as it’s triggered when an advisor tweets the first time after having been added to the database. Six advisors who we have followed have subsequently protected their accounts and we can’t re-follow them.

Unfortunately, the database you see has been reset to today. We’ve lost our historical tweets and links and trending themes and tags. Spilt milk at this point.

Thanks to those of you who inquired about our whereabouts today. Now that all the cobwebs have been cleared, we’re back and ready to showcase your tweets.