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Web 2.0: Major security flaw on Twitter allows you to force anyone to follow

A major flaw on Twitter was revealed today, which resulted in letting you force anyone to follow you, now corrected.

Who would have thought that tweeting would in turn cause a code to run through Twitters system, something as simple as saying “accept USERNAME”. In a matter of minutes after Gizmodo, Mashable and various other sites released this information, Twitter users began to abuse this system and quickly force numerous celebrities to force them to follow.

Yes, even the creator of Twitter was easily abused by this mishap, which quickly resulted in maintenance on Twitter, which reset everyones followers and following lists to 0.

Lists do show up normally however, but the followers count will more than likely remain at 0 until they can revert the database to a previous number, before the security flaw was so widely released.

If the maintenance hadn't started already I would've forced Morgan Webb to follow me, lol j/k.