Twitter Bug allows me to increase my followers for some hours

Posted by karyboy on Sunday January 26, 2014 @01:38AM
from the blog.karneshmehra.com dept.

http://blog.karneshmehra.com/twitter-bug-allows-me-to-increase-my-followers-for-some-hours/

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Re:Twitter Bug allows me to increase my followers for some h... by Gurrewe on Sunday January 26, 2014 @03:37AM (#7124420)

I was able to increase my followers-count with a few hundred. Then "You are unable to follow more people at this time. Learn more here" happened. :(

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Re:Twitter Bug allows me to increase my followers for some h... by karyboy on Sunday January 26, 2014 @03:41AM (#7124442)

There is a follow limit for each day , thats why you get this message

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Re:Twitter Bug allows me to increase my followers for some h... by stevewillows on Sunday January 26, 2014 @03:46AM (#7124453)

is the limit around 700?

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Re:Twitter Bug allows me to increase my followers for some h... by yaph on Sunday January 26, 2014 @04:58AM (#7124610)

The technical follow limit is 1000, but Twitter states "this is a technical account limit only, and there are additional rules prohibiting aggressive following behavior".

see https://support.twitter.com/articles/15364-twitter-limits-ap...

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Re:Twitter Bug allows me to increase my followers for some h... by karyboy on Sunday January 26, 2014 @03:56AM (#7124478)

I dont know the exact number , but it must be around this figure

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Re:Twitter Bug allows me to increase my followers for some h... by stevewillows on Sunday January 26, 2014 @04:01AM (#7124491)

I did it from the main view of the feed where it also shows suggested people. It also ran the script on an ex-girlfriend and a good friend of mine.

Nice catch!

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Re:Twitter Bug allows me to increase my followers for some h... by Daviey on Sunday January 26, 2014 @05:19AM (#7124652)

Not that I agree that this is a good thing to do.... but why this way, and not via the API?

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Re:Twitter Bug allows me to increase my followers for some h... by higherpurpose on Sunday January 26, 2014 @03:28AM (#7124396)

I assume Twitter can easily revert the followers to the original amount on this one.

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Re:Twitter Bug allows me to increase my followers for some h... by shalalala on Sunday January 26, 2014 @02:14AM (#7124215)

Seems to be fixed now.

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Re:Twitter Bug allows me to increase my followers for some h... by creativityhurts on Sunday January 26, 2014 @05:23AM (#7124661)

Still works but most likely it will be an easy fix for Twitter to revert it.

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Re:Twitter Bug allows me to increase my followers for some h... by karyboy on Sunday January 26, 2014 @02:39AM (#7124265)

I can still increase the followers count ...

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Re:Twitter Bug allows me to increase my followers for some h... by mide765 on Sunday January 26, 2014 @02:40AM (#7124266)

Me too.

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Re:Twitter Bug allows me to increase my followers for some h... by benjy1 on Sunday January 26, 2014 @03:24AM (#7124383)

Works for me, such a funny bug issue.

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Re:Twitter Bug allows me to increase my followers for some h... by Aaronn on Sunday January 26, 2014 @10:19AM (#7125310)

Not fixed

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Re:Twitter Bug allows me to increase my followers for some h... by SymbianSyMoh on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @03:46PM (#7139592)

Awesome and Yes, it's so easy to be fixed

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