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Wow, this works. SnoopDogg is now following me: http://twitter.com/snoopdogg http://twitter.com/snoopdogg. I'm the cartoon figure.
by maxklein 16y ago
Wow, this works. SnoopDogg is now following me: http://twitter.com/snoopdogg http://twitter.com/snoopdogg. I'm the cartoon figure.
- notauser 16y agoBad plan to try this out with an account you value - if they can identify who has used the exploit they will probably ban you when the dust settles.
- maxklein 16y agoIs it an exploit or is it a valid command? I don't think we hacked anything, we just typed in some text that causes people to follow us, for all we know that's a new feature of twitter.
- doki_pen 16y agoUnfortunately, they can probably do whatever they want with this, whether people think it's fair or not.
- rmc 16y agoNo matter what twitter planned for it, it's an exploit. Users think that only they can control who follows them, but this feature gets around that.
- FlorinAndrei 16y agoSounds like a backdoor that someone forgot, or was too lazy to remove.
- brk 16y agoI highly doubt that. From what I'm reading on the Intarwebs, a LOT of people just couldn't resist playing with this exploit. If they truly banned everyone who did a force-follow with this hack I think they would lose a ton of people who are frankly only getting marginal value from Twitter. I know that if I actually had to rebuild my followee list for "testing" this little hack out I would probably decide it wasn't worth the effort to start over again on Twitter.