Twitter Bug Let Users Force Anyone to Follow Them

May 10th, 2010

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Filed under: Web , Social Networking Twitter was apparently worried that Facebook was feeling lonely as the King of Social Networking Gaffs, so the little micro-blogging service that could has revealed a bug that allowed users to forcefully add other tweeters to their followers lists. The flaw appears to have been discovered by the blog Webrazzi. By simply sending a Tweet that read “accept @ev,” the blog was able to force Twitter co-founder Evan Williams to follow a dummy account .

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