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Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter

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Re: Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter

#111
Seems that the fix is just a filter. Is anyone else trying to bypass with html ascii? A few minutes ago, a prompt with the html ascii returned a +0x36 on every char. Now it does not give feedback.

"accept BillGates": &#61 ;&#63 ;&#63 ;&#65 ;&#70 ;&#74 ;&#20 ;&#42 ;&#69 ;&#6C ;&#6C ;&#47 ;&#61 ;&#74 ;&#65 ;&#73 ;

Maybe they already really fixed this bug (I hope).

Re: Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter

#112
post #70

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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.

Destroying communities for your own personal gain is a problem that extends much beyond Twitter.

Re: Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter

#114
post #51

Official: http://status.twitter.com/post/587210796/follow-bug-discover...

Doesn't seem like a bug to me, it looks like a poor design choice. How many other "special" tweet commands are there?

edit: anyone downmodding care to suggest how putting "accept[username]" in a tweet would be considered a 'bug'?

Re: Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter

#115
post #98

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For the sake of pointing out the obvious, Twitter already is mostly useless. Anything the previous poster can do to destroy the remainder, I'm all in favor of.

you are in favour of startups being actively ruined because you dont personally find them useful?

In general, no.

Re: Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter

#116
post #114
post #51

Official: http://status.twitter.com/post/587210796/follow-bug-discover...

Doesn't seem like a bug to me, it looks like a poor design choice. How many other "special" tweet commands are there? edit: anyone downmodding care to suggest how putting "accept[username]" in a tweet would be considered a 'bug'?

It's not that writing "accept [username]" is a bug — the bug is that you can use it to accept people who haven't asked to follow you. Similarly, OK buttons in dialogs are not a bug, but it would be a bug if they all had the same effect as the OK button in the dialog "Are you sure you want to erase your boot drive?"

Re: Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter

#117
post #108
post #91

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You're a waste of space. I hope your accounts all get suspended. Witty and inspirational quotes? Wow, I guess your followers should feel blessed to find themselves at the receiving end of your awesome RSS'ed wisdom. Spammers like you end up making people judge Twitter as "more spam" and giving it up before they've really tried it properly. Your followers are probably more likely than normal users to give up Twitter b…

You should be angry at twitter. They have made a spammers paradise. Any blame should rest with them IMHO.

Families of murder victims should be angry at gun companies. They make murder weapons. Any blame should rest with them IMHO.

Re: Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter

#118

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?

Follow and Block make sense as commands you can send through a message. But Accept? Why would you ever be able to control an action on someone else's account? It's rather odd that this exists at all.

If you've got your tweets protected (private), you have to accept users to allow them to follow you.

Re: Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter

#119
Update (6:30 PM PST): We’ve finished our cleanup of the spurious followings generated a result of this bug. If you are still seeing folks you are following who you didn’t choose to follow, please use the block or unfollow tools to remedy.

Obviously, their so called "cleanup" is incomplete, at least for me :)

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