Even without this bug, I dont think they should still allow commands via tweet at all. It made sense when most tweets were via SMS, but not anymore...Maybe for emerging markets with heavy SMS usage, add a 2nd number to send commands to isolate the two?
Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter
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#62Heh, I used this a bunch of times. It did work just fine, I had all sorts of people following me who really shouldn't care about me. And now I have 0 followers.
I went crazy and start adding the top 200 twitter accounts: http://twitaholic.com/top100/followers/ Thought I could sell it afterwards or something. lol
I only added top people on my niche!
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#64Jason Calacanis dream come true :P
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#65here is the official twitter status blog: http://status.twitter.com/
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#66Its coincidental that Conan tweeted this message a couple days ago: "If it ever says I’m following more than one person, I’ve been hacked. I’m a completely monogamous Twitterer—I only follow Sarah Killen." http://twitter.com/ConanOBrien/status/13631062967
Wow, Conan's Twitter account is not only a test, he's got a user story (that just turned red):
In order to provoke curiosity and amusement
As a celebrity comedy writer and television host
I want to only be shown as following one otherwise-unknown person in Michigan
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#67Its coincidental that Conan tweeted this message a couple days ago: "If it ever says I’m following more than one person, I’ve been hacked. I’m a completely monogamous Twitterer—I only follow Sarah Killen." http://twitter.com/ConanOBrien/status/13631062967
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#68Link doesn't work - does a server hammering lead to a 404? I didn't know it could...
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#69I would guess this exploit has always been possible until today? What's interesting is that someone has probably been wielding this secret power well before it got outed here on hacker news.
Or, is there anybody whose career took off due to this bug? For example, a musician who got signed primarily because all of the top 50 music producers were following him on twitter.
I have written a script to follow 1000 users on my niche every day. I find that around 15% of users follow me back. In the next couple of days, I remove the rest 85%. I have been doing this for a few months now and I have a few thousand followers on a few twitter accounts.
I have set up websites for each of those niches and get decent amount of traffic though twitter.
Been banned the first few times, but I have found my ways around it (mostly).
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or, is there anybody whose career took off due to this bug? For example, a musician who got signed primarily because all of the top 50 music producers were following him on twitter.
I have written a script to follow 1000 users on my niche every day. I find that around 15% of users follow me back. In the next couple of days, I remove the rest 85%. I have been doing this for a few months now and I have a few thousand followers on a few twitter accounts. I have set up websites for each of those niches and get decent amount of traffic though twitter. Been banned the first few times, but I have found…
Please stop doing that. It's bad for the world.