All hell broke reduce nowadays whenever a fan on the 80s metal band Accept (oftentimes thought to be the bad man’s ACDC) tweeted "Accept pwnz". A bug in Twitter made user @pwnz his follower.
So the story goes, and the bug that let people steal followers was born.
Twitter posted to its status blog:
We identified and resolved a bug that permitted a user to "force" other users to follow them. We’re now working to rollback all abuse of the bug that took place. Followerfollowing numbers are at present at 0; we’re aware and this too should shortly be resolved.
Twitter later updated:
Of note: protected updates did not become public as a result of this bug.
Lots of abusers were quick to take advantage on the exploit. Mashable’s Adam Ostrow pointed out that Conan O’Brien,
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