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The Twitpocolypse is on us! Earlier today, as the microblogging site attempted to repair an annoying bug, supporter lists unexpected disappeared. As the Twitterverse panicked and "Follower 0" rose to the tip of the trending list, Twitter positive the users around the companys own Twitter feed that the issue would be fast remedied.
“Follow equate arrangement is set to 0 and follow/unfollow is at the moment offline whilst we repair a bug,” Twitter’s own Twitter comment reported at 1:02 p.m., confirming that everyone, from Ashton Kutcher to Justin Bieber bloggers, was affected.
Earlier Monday, the microblogging network was raid by a bug that authorised any one to force alternative Twitter users to follow his or her account. Social network headlines site Mashable reported that one rapt reader e-mailed the sum of the glitch Monday morning, essay “[tweet] accept [username]” afterwards the [username] rught away starts following you.”
Tech blog Gizmodo remarkable that the auto-follow was exploitable in Twitters Web interface, notthird-party apps. The blog additionally posted instructions: “Follow this dead-simple guide to force any Twitter user — from Oprah to Kutcher — to follow you. No, seriously.”
Notably Conan O’Brien, who famously follows usually one person, appeared to follow 194 people progressing Monday.
Open seasonfollower-poaching was shortlived however, as Twitter worked to pill the problem, posting this at 10:19 a.m. PT: "We"re right away operative to rollback all abuse of the bug that took place. Follower/following numbers are now at 0; we"re wakeful and this as well should before long be resolved," Twitter has postedits standing blog.”
This will no disbelief come as good service to Twit-celebs such as “Weird” Al Yankovic, who posted this bit of humorous self-doubt :” Was my last twitter that offensive? Looks similar to I"ve lost each singular one of my followers.”
By 2:15 p.m. ET, supporter lists were restored.
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