Bug in Twitter Let Anyone Follows You, Seriously

A bug was discovered in Twitter. Anyone can let anyone follow him/her. Now, Twitter has pull the plug on follow/unfollow for the time being. So, what you will see is 0 follower and 0 following. I wonder how long will Twitter take to solve this bug.

As you can see, in the above pic, this person with no following people can get Oprah, ConanOBrien to follow him. Because of this bug, Twitter has stop all follow/unfollow features.

By the time you read this, this trick will not work anymore. Anyway, I copied the “instruction” from Gizmodo.

  1. Open the Twitter web interface (I haven’t been able to get it to work in the apps I’ve tried)
  2. Tweet “accept username”, as in “accept oprah”
  3. Wait a few seconds. You may get a server error, but that means it’s worked.
  4. Check your followers list
  5. !!!

Don’t bother to try it now. Already too late. Anyway, lets wait for Twitter to update the situation. BTW, this is how it looks like now.

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