There is a bug on Twitter which lets a user to force another user to follow the first one.
On twitter, people wants to have a large following. As we all know that larger the following is better the reputation is. Few more stars are added to reputation if following contains big names like Bill Gates or Sachin Tendulkar. But it is quiet impossible for a normal person to have such celebrities following him. A bug on twitter can make this possible. Just by writing “ accept @username” then the [username] immediately starts following you. You can make anyone on twitter follow you.
The bug appears to have originally been noticed by a Turkish blog, followed by the blog Webrazzi, which successfully tested it out and forced the Twitter accounts of industry luminaries like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Evan Williams to follow a dummy profile. The flaw allowed members to add followers to their own accounts, basically, by tweeting “accept” followed by “@” and any given Twitter user name.
Twitter spokesman Sean Garrett admits that the bug is real and in order to find a solution to this problem first step taken was the disabling of Follower/following counts. It’s not yet clear how long the bug had been in existence or whether it could potentially give Twitter users access to the contents of “protected” accounts in which all tweets are private.
Making it impossible for users to take an undue advantage of it. If you try to check whether bug is working or not by clicking the followers button still you will not find anything now onwards.
Earlier this day using this bug many people made Conan O Brain follow them. Previously, the comedian was famously only following one person Sarah Killen.
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However, twitter team has fixed this issue, so don’t try to make celebrities follow you anymore.
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