Allegedly fixed, twitter is working on rolling back abuses of the hack. http://status.twitter.com/post/587210796/follow-bug-discover...
Fortunately for Twitter it's incredible easy to track (/^accept \w+$/)
Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter
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Re: Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter
#82EDIT: My original message invited people not to try this. It turns out that everyone's counter is showing zero followers, regardless of whether you tried the hack or not. Thanks Travis for pointing this out. I was misled by my desktop client which cached my follower number.
Every's followers count shows zero now, it's not a consequence of doing this
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Why?
If they are providing actual value, and people care enough to follow them back - where's the bad for the world part? Unless it's just selling vi4gr4, then perhaps. But they're not actively spamming people (unless they follow them back, in which case they opted in.)
I'd actually love being marketed to this way, and I think it is a viable way of allowing the marketing you want into your life. As opposed to "hot girls are waiting for you on Zoosk"
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#84Earlier 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…
This is very annoying. If I didn't knew some one and he/she was following me I just blocked them. I just left Twitter some time ago (feeds are better) and I am glad I did.
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#85Re: Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter
#86Allegedly fixed, twitter is working on rolling back abuses of the hack. http://status.twitter.com/post/587210796/follow-bug-discover...
Fortunately for Twitter it's incredible easy to track (/^accept \w+$/)
Not quite. accept is a perfectly valid command, but it is designed to allow someone requesting to follow you to follow you. Twitter needed to find accept requests which did not have matching follow requests, which is a bit more effort (but not much, I'd imagine).
As of now the problem appears to be fixed for a lot of people already.
Re: Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter
#87Earlier 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…
People like you should be banned from Twitter until you learn to behave better.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please stop doing that. It's bad for the world.
Please stop caring. Its bad for your blood pressure. Seriously, it's only Twitter. Conflict, famine, and poverty are bad for the world, but Twitter doesn't matter.
I disagree with the "it's only Twitter" because Twitter is becoming increasingly important to me, but yeah, not worth getting angry about. At least that's what I tell myself.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Instead of manually finding interesting people on my niche, I set my criteria and let my program do the dirty work for me. What's wrong with it?
I don't even spam people. I send one link to my site per every 5 witty and inspirational quotes. A few people that I met over there have contributed to my site as guest bloggers.
I am not doing anything evil - just automating something that I would hate to do manually.
Re: Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter
#90Earlier 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…
I quite often block people for spam who do that