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Ask HN: Did you exploit the twitter follow bug?

4 points| sushi | 16 years ago | reply

I tried it for a bit and since it was working made some of the celebs like @aplusk & @oprah follow me. Did you do something like that as well?

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[+] brk|16 years ago|reply
It appears that Taylor Swift and Mariah Carey have un-followed me. The others that I forced into my followers list are still there though. Kinda disappointed about Taylor, I really thought that she and I would get a lot of value from each-others tweets.
[+] sushi|16 years ago|reply
It seems Taylor has un-followed me as well. I was also thinking that she could get some value from my cooking tweets.
[+] jasonlbaptiste|16 years ago|reply
better yet, who did it and then messaged one of the people they made follow them. if i had known earlier i sincerely would have made bill gates follow me and just sent a dm with a quick+ sincere "thank you".
[+] jacquesm|16 years ago|reply
How does one tell a quick + sincere "thank you" from a slow and insincere "thank you"?
[+] noodle|16 years ago|reply
i used it, yes, but only to test it out. i was too curious not to.