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The new follow button provides no confirmation when you decide to "follow" somebody and it provides no way of undoing your choice. I made this simple demonstrat

by gcr 15y ago

The new follow button provides no confirmation when you decide to "follow" somebody and it provides no way of undoing your choice. I made this simple demonstration in five minutes of a button that follows your cursor around the page hidden with opacity. If you followed the instruction and clicked on the page, you should see that you're now following @justinbieber. Imagine a scammer teleporting the follow button on top of links in onmouseover in a similar manner.

rakkhi 15y ago
Ha! nice work. Hope twiter fixes quickly.
- gcr 15y ago
  It looks like twitter "fixed" it. Now no follow buttons work instantly for me, they just take me to the twitterer's profile page. Perhaps this is account-based? The button demo on twitter's webpage doesn't instantly apply anymore either. I swear it did this morning.
  - rakkhi 15y ago
    Yeah it was working today. Wonder if it was a real quick fix.
  - jemka 15y ago
    Still works for me. I signed in twitter on chrome incognito window to verify.
wccrawford 15y ago
That didn't take long. Just saw the original story about this this morning, predicting gloom and doom for this feature... And here's the proof of concept.