Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter • Hacker News Board

I wonder if they are going to be able to undo this. Do they have a two sided log of the follow process? If it's just one-sided, they may be able to fix the bug but not to reverse the damage.

Re: Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter

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Post by dmn001 » Mon, May 10, 2010, 4:44 PM UTC

nutmeg wrote: post #13

There could be notoriety for anyone who does this to Conan O'brien. He only follows one person AFAIK. Edit: Looks like this probably already happened.

ConanOBrien was following 190 a few seconds ago, now there are 266 and its rising.

Re: Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter

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Post by tibbon » Mon, May 10, 2010, 4:46 PM UTC

Wondering if there will be repercussions for people using this, or if they are able to track it? They aren't able to keep a lot of logs due to the volume.

Re: Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter

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Post by benatkin » Mon, May 10, 2010, 4:47 PM UTC

nutmeg wrote: post #13

There could be notoriety for anyone who does this to Conan O'brien. He only follows one person AFAIK. Edit: Looks like this probably already happened.

It sure does!

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=accept+conanobrien

Re: Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter

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Post by jeiting » Mon, May 10, 2010, 4:50 PM UTC

Wow, tested and verified.

Somebody is working late tonight.