Twitter Stomps Out Security Bug
PrintMore than a few Twitter users on Monday awoke to find that they had no followers when logging into the popular micro-blogging service, though it wasn't anything they said/wrote. Instead, Twitter temporarily reset all follower/following counts to zero in order to stomp out a bug that allowed users to force others to follow them.
"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.
Before Twitter squashed the bug, all a user had to do was type "accept [username]" to force that person to follow them, including celebrity accounts. It no longer works, of course, and what about those follower/following counts? According to Twitter, everything was back to normal by 11AM Pacific on Monday.
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