Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter

#1

Post by yigit » Mon, May 10, 2010, 3:46 PM UTC

Re: Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter

#2

Post by aditya » Mon, May 10, 2010, 4:07 PM UTC

Whatever it was, got removed or keeled over...

#3

Post by chegra » Mon, May 10, 2010, 4:16 PM UTC

Sweet works for me. Check my followers: http://twitter.com/chegra

#4

Post by lukejduncan » Mon, May 10, 2010, 4:22 PM UTC

mirror?

#5

Post by maxklein » Mon, May 10, 2010, 4:23 PM UTC

Wow, this works. SnoopDogg is now following me: http://twitter.com/snoopdogg. I'm the cartoon figure.

#6

Post by yigit » Mon, May 10, 2010, 4:25 PM UTC

lukejduncan wrote: post #4

mirror?

#7

Post by jgrahamc » Mon, May 10, 2010, 4:30 PM UTC

Yes, this does work. Now what's the opposite verb to make someone unfollow me?

#8

Post by yigit » Mon, May 10, 2010, 4:34 PM UTC

aditya wrote: post #2

Whatever it was, got removed or keeled over...

i thought tumblr removed the post, but it seems like it is working now.

#9

Post by lpgauth » Mon, May 10, 2010, 4:36 PM UTC

If you tweet “accept [Twitter Username]”, the other user will automaticly follow you.

eg. "accept snoopdog"

#10

Post by notauser » Mon, May 10, 2010, 4:37 PM UTC

maxklein wrote: post #5

Wow, this works. SnoopDogg is now following me: http://twitter.com/snoopdogg . I'm the cartoon figure.

Bad plan to try this out with an account you value - if they can identify who has used the exploit they will probably ban you when the dust settles.