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

Re: Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter

#31

Post by fijter » Mon, May 10, 2010, 4:53 PM UTC

Twitter damage control: TRUNCATE followers;

Re: Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter

#32

Post by noodle » Mon, May 10, 2010, 4:53 PM UTC

tibbon wrote: post #18

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.

well, i can tell you right now that my followed and following lists were both just now wiped out, and using the accept bug now produces an internal server error.

edit: seems everyone is at 0/0, but the bug still produces an error for me.

Re: Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter

#33

Post by mtinkerhess » Mon, May 10, 2010, 4:53 PM UTC

It appears that they just wiped everyone's list of followers? My feed still works though.

Re: Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter

#34

Post by johns » Mon, May 10, 2010, 4:53 PM UTC

sjwalter wrote: post #26

tibbon wrote: post #18

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.

They are at least able to tell if you've used it--my account just lost all its followers. http://twitter.com/sjwalter I'd had a legitimate 30ish followers, used this bug a few times, now 0.

I think everyone is at 0. I didn't use the bug and I'm at 0/0

Re: Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter

#35

Post by jeiting » Mon, May 10, 2010, 4:54 PM UTC

Now I am getting a 502 when I try to post accept messages.

Re: Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter

#36

Post by mrduncan » Mon, May 10, 2010, 4:54 PM UTC

They appear to be working on some sort of fix right now.

If you look at "following" lists, everything is showing up as zero for me right now, as in it shows that I'm not following anyone. All other users that I check are also showing that they aren't following anyone.

Re: Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter

#37

Post by orblivion » Mon, May 10, 2010, 4:55 PM UTC

This is up there with putting everybody in a root terminal by default on their Androids.

Re: Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter

#38

Post by chegra » Mon, May 10, 2010, 4:55 PM UTC

sjwalter wrote: post #24

Heh, 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

Re: Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter

#39

Post by barnaby » Mon, May 10, 2010, 4:56 PM UTC

johns wrote: post #34

sjwalter wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are at least able to tell if you've used it--my account just lost all its followers. http://twitter.com/sjwalter I'd had a legitimate 30ish followers, used this bug a few times, now 0.

I think everyone is at 0. I didn't use the bug and I'm at 0/0

confirmed, everyone is at 0

Re: Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter

#40

Post by [deleted] » Mon, May 10, 2010, 4:56 PM UTC

TrevorBramble wrote: post #23

Interesting. My "following" and "followers" counts just dropped to 0.

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