Follow Feature (Sometimes) Does Not Work - Bug?

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There are some steem accounts, which I want to follow but something seems to be wrong with the execution of follow commands or follow/unfollow button displaying.

Example:

I want to follow steem accounts zipporah@zipporah and zyx066@zyx066.

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I click Follow button on zipporah@zipporah profile and Follow button of zyx066@zyx066, which is one of her Top Reblogged Users (shown in the column on the right side).

The command executes as I get following screen. Both accounts seemed to be followed by me now.

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SteemWorld: ok

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Steemd: ok

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Everything seems to be working fine, but when I refresh the page in browser or revisit same accounts later on, it looks again like I'm not following the two featured users from this post.

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Is there any particular reason for this or is it just some bug in the blockchain?

I don't know how the 2 users see this, but they probably get the message I started following them all over again (at least in Notifications section in Busy.org). And this must be pretty anoying to see, and I appologize to any such user for just wanting to follow them.

UPDATE 1

Github Issue: https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/2846

UPDATE 2

I just realized one thing, which might help timcliff@timcliff, solving this problem. All the "problematic" accounts for me start with letter Z, meaning they are all at the end of the alphabet. I know some people who have trouble following me and I also start with letter Z.

It seems that if I follow many persons and try to follow newly somebody from the end of the alphabet, this doesn't properly show in follow/unfollow buttons. It looks like a time related issue in combination with number of people followed. Try to think in this direction, maybe there is something to it.

Example: I just started following zainal.bacee@zainal.bacee for first time ever just for test. I see myself in his list of followers, but the follow/unfollow button says I'm not following this user.

UPDATE 3

Github Issue: https://github.com/steemit/condenser/issues/2996

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