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Good lord, how would twitter recover from that? Possibly by undoing follow's between the moment this bug has surfaced and the moment they suspend following. Mea

• igorgue 16y ago
  LOL... sorry but when you say it that way it's actually pretty funny.
• nkm 16y ago
  I suppose they have a record of all the commands executed.
  • hcho 16y ago
    Follower and followee counts seem to be back. Anyone seeing lost legitimate follows?
    • nnash 16y ago
      Mine were reset to zero but the numbers are the same now.
• bena 16y ago
  Or find all statuses that have the pattern of "accept <valid_username>" and then removing <poster> from the <valid_username>'s followers. That's not the hard part. The hard part is that it seems that twitter wasn't checking accept messages to see if they were actually requests behind them or if the accepting user is actually a restricted account. So now they have to implement a mechanism that associates follow requests with follow acceptance. Currently, the exchange is probably something like this behind the scenes: me: @restrictedUserIWantToFollow lemme follow you them: accept guyWhoWantsToFollowMe Everything simply implemented as twitter messages to facilitate cell phone usage. However, the accept message just assumes that there is a valid request being made and adds them to your followers. Assumption: the mother of all foul-ups.
  • jaxn 16y ago
    2nd Assumption: Twitter stores commands that don't get posted as statuses.