Comments on: Twitter Bug: Force People To Follow You

By: Diana Yin

Diana Yin — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 03:18:14 +0000

There's a bug that forces you to follow people on Twitter: http://t.co/vFwKNWxH I don't think they fixed it. It's still happening to me.

By: Harry

Harry — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 07:22:30 +0000

A new scam goes viral on Twitter.It is Unfollowed me scam application which includes a link with a message to check the list of users who unfollowed you.When you click on link it ask you to complete a survey.It never show the list of users who unfollowed you.Also it uses your account to send further messages to your followers.
Harry recently posted… Unfollowed Me Scam Application On Twitter

By: Jedidja

Jedidja — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:38:02 +0000

I didn’t know about this one, but I wouldn’t have used it either. Following you on Twitter!

By: miley @ external hard drive

miley @ external hard drive — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:49:06 +0000

Indeed it was… and I was a victim of that from no fault of my own

By: Marianna В

Marianna В — Sat, 29 May 2010 17:32:18 +0000

Well, sometimes things like that happen to big companies. And there is no way to avoid this in the future however I am sure that because of this accident several people from Twitter QA department were fired for sure… In any ways I think that this bug is not the most horrible thing that could happen to these guys
.-= Marianna В´s last blog ..How to remove name from Google search =-.

By: Teresa@debtsettlement

Teresa@debtsettlement — Thu, 27 May 2010 10:03:48 +0000

Now that was totally cool! I didn’t knew that but I must say that it wouldn’t be fair to somehow “force” people to follow you. No use in having a lot of followers but doesn’t care about my tweets.

By: Jaypee

Jaypee — Mon, 17 May 2010 17:05:06 +0000

Is this the same bug that Twitter fixed and caused many Twitter users follower numbers to zero?
.-= Jaypee´s last blog ..Matt Mullenweg: State of the Word 2010 =-.

By: Ryan Cowles

Ryan Cowles — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:54:08 +0000

Come to think of it, there were a few people I didn’t recall following, haha!
.-= Ryan Cowles´s last blog ..Turkey Vultures Over Provin Mountain – Agawam, MA =-.

By: Klaus @ TechPatio

Klaus @ TechPatio — Sun, 16 May 2010 20:38:50 +0000

That’s good. But when you get such e-mails, it’s important to open a browser and type in the URL yourself, instead of clicking on whatever links are in the mail as they might lead elsewhere.

By: Klaus @ TechPatio

Klaus @ TechPatio — Sun, 16 May 2010 20:38:08 +0000

I wonder how it got out, actually. I’m sure some people might have been using it without anybody noticing, but maybe somebody found out and blogged about it – or reported it to Twitter.