Earlier this morning a simple hack sent Twitter programmers in a frenzy.  The incredibly easy hack allows you to force anyone on Twitter to follow your account.  Here’s how it worked:

1.)  Open your Twitter profile

2.) Tweet “Accept ‘any username,'” you can enter any twitter account like for Conan type “Accept ConanObrien.”

3.)  A few seconds after entering the tweet you should get a server error response, which means it worked.

4.)  Check your followers list and…

5.) Ta Da!! Coco loves to hear what you tweet.

Unfortunately the word was out and Twitter was frantically scrambling to fix the bug.  Most account effected by the bug reads:

It didn’t take them long before they fixed the problem, Twitter released the following update on the whole bug fiasco:

“We identified and resolved a bug that permitted a user to ‘force’ other users to follow them.  We are now working to rollback all abuse of the bug that took place.  Follower/following numbers are currently at 0; we’re aware and this too should be shortly resolved.“

So much for you being buddy-buddy with the celebrities on Twitter.

Source: Gizmodo

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