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Twitter fucked again Went From 1200 followers to >>0 in one second

Check your followeres you have none now they have been wiped off ..lol

And I am now following 0 people :)

yea same here. just wiped them all way. hope they come back soon. :)

Dat's brutal tootsie.

Hopefully they can fix it for ye.

They decided to start over. You will have to find all your friends again!

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Originally Posted by KillerK (Post 17125963)

They decided to start over. You will have to find all your friends again!

Thats shit cause I dont have freinds ..they were all fake anyway

better check all my other accounts too ... fuck twitter and fuck google and fuck facebook and fuck youtube

oh no 2012 came early ...

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Originally Posted by TeenCat (Post 17125986)

oh no 2012 came early ...

yep we are all fucked the sky has falling its gone all dark here Think its gonna rain :Oh crap:Oh crap

I get the message that Twitter is down

What a rapid change.

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Originally Posted by docputer (Post 17125997)

I get the message that Twitter is down

Its up here but it is not functioning correctly

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Originally Posted by fatfoo (Post 17126004)

What a rapid change.

yep record breaker I think

Hopefully your fake nics are next .....

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Forcing users to follow you = failing with an audience

Twitter has been hit by a major bug that has seen many users of the service lose all of their followers and friends.

The problem began when a flaw was uncovered that allowed people to force others to "follow" them on the site.

People who typed "accept" followed by a person's username forced the user to be added to their list of followers.

The hack was quickly passed around the social network with many people using it to force celebrities to follow them.

Twitter has fixed the bug but said they it was currently cleaning up the damage.

"We identified and resolved a bug that permitted a user to 'force' other users to follow them," the site said in a blog post. "We're now working to rollback all abuse of the bug that took place."

As part of the clean up, Twitter has temporarily reset accounts so that people look like they are following no one and have no followers.

"Follower/following numbers are currently at 0; we're aware and this too should shortly be resolved."

People can still use the service in the meantime.

Twitter allows users to post messages - known as tweets - up to 140 characters long.

People can see what others are writing by choosing to "follow" them. However, unlike many social networks, both parties do not need to reciprocate the friendship.

The new bug allowed many people to force celebrities, such as Lady Gaga, to follow them by simply typing "accept @ladygaga". The flaw only worked on the website, and not through third-party applications used to access the site, such as tweetdeck.

Twitter has exploded in popularity since 2007, when it was launched, and now has more than 100 million users.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10106166.stm

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Originally Posted by PR_Tom (Post 17126040)

Forcing users to follow you = failing with an audience

None of mine are forced :)

Yeah they are all back

I still have my 13 Friends.

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Originally Posted by L-Pink (Post 17126022)

Hopefully your fake nics are next .....

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LOL I wish I had some fake nics I could have some major fun on here

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Originally Posted by halfpint (Post 17126050)

None of mine are forced :)

Yeah they are all back

I have 2 followers and I've only ever made 2 messages on there.. Can you kick people off from following you on there? One of mine is some ex girlfriend stalker type who creeps me out.

http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/05/10/...to-follow-you/

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We’ve been tracking down some of Facebook’s little quirks and flaws lately. But let’s get back to an old favorite. Twitter, which appears to have sprung a leak as well.

Is there a bug in Twitter which literally forces any account to follow you?

The flaw appears when a user tweets this format: “accept [Twitter Username]”. So, for example “accept TechCrunch”. Magically that user appears as one of your followers. [Update: We've just been alerted that Twitter's attempts to squash this exploit is reseting the accounts of anyone who tries this exploit to a follower count of zero. Hopefully they will sort it out soon].

This of course could be quite handy. Suddenly you could boast that some of the world’s most influential followers like Robert Scoble or Barack Obama was following you.

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.

You try the hack and see if you can get it to work. Let us know what happened in the comments.

Update: Twitter has got back to us, saying “we’re on it”. Gizmodo says that this only worked in Twitter’s Web interface, not on third-party apps.

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Originally Posted by PR_Tom (Post 17126068)

I have 2 followers and I've only ever made 2 messages on there.. Can you kick people off from following you on there? One of mine is some ex girlfriend stalker type who creeps me out.

You can protect your tweets by going to your twitter settings and only allow people who you follow to see your tweets and you can block them on the followers page there are 3 tabs on each followers name Its the last one (the one that looks like a cog)

Your Tweets must have been real boring if you lost them all ! :Oh crap