Twitter exploit...make anyone follow you
- Thread starter HotNasty
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It says that when techcrunch did a test on this flaw it did put the follow on the list but :
However, there may be a flaw in the flaw, as it were.
Web 2.0 blog Webrazzi has been testing the flaw. They started getting twitter to make inlfuentials follow a fake account, @bugrazzi.
However, when I tried seeing if I was literally following bugrazzi, the bugrazzi twitter profile itself still didn?t register that I was following it, even though I could see it was in my list of followers.
Have you tested this part?
However, there may be a flaw in the flaw, as it were.
Web 2.0 blog Webrazzi has been testing the flaw. They started getting twitter to make inlfuentials follow a fake account, @bugrazzi.
However, when I tried seeing if I was literally following bugrazzi, the bugrazzi twitter profile itself still didn?t register that I was following it, even though I could see it was in my list of followers.
Have you tested this part?
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area.ninety.nine
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Looks like the exploit is over now, you cant follow anyone right now. Counts show as zero but you still see your 'Followers' updates.
Winchester
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This was patched by twitter and if you used this exploit your followers and following was forced to 0
Rajthepositivelife
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- Feb 9, 2010
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Thank God I read the lower comments and did not try the technique, I would have been screwed if I had tried that...lol
