Well… once again Twitter turns out to be amazing piece of software (is this because it was implemented in Ruby?). Twitter has (had?) a bug where you could force someone to follow you just by
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.
On the blog there is info that:
Follower/following numbers are currently at 0
On my account there are still correct numbers – I wouldn’t use that dirty hack (lovely feature?) just to have more followers. Why someone want’s to have more followers not interested in following? Is there any
Twitter really amazes me – I really couldn’t reproduce that error (feature?) in the soft that I write. Of course I could do that on purpose – but not by accident, no way.
This is really amazed what you’ve done, thank you for inspiring me how to create such hidden features. Good work.
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