Twitter recently fell for a ridiculous bug that allowed anyone to make someone else follow them just by entering “accept [username]” as their tweet. As word quickly spread like wildfire on Sunday and early Monday, chaos resulted as a majority of Twitters tried the command. As a way to temporary fix the situation, Twitter disabled the entire following system, making everyone’s followers and followed to 0. Now, Twitter says everything should be back to normal, sans the results of what happened during that time. “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,” the company said. The glitch was reportedly fixed at 11am Pacific yesterday morning .
Source: Twitter
