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The bug let people add followers simply by typing 'accept' followed by a twitter name. This would have allowed spammers to build huge new mailing lists if the process could have been automated and there are some reports of celebrities being signed up as followers to people's accounts.

News of the bug quickly spread online, causing a spike in usage, and Twitter moved to track down the flaw. However, in blocking the bug the company caused a large number of users to lose all friends and followers.

We identified and resolved a bug that permitted a user to force other users to follow them. Were now working to rollback all abuse of the bug that took place, the company blogged.

Follower/following numbers are currently at 0; were aware and this too should shortly be resolved.

Twitter is now working to restore previous friend and follower settings and has warned users that they should remove any unknown followers from their list.

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What does this mean for me? Sweet F.A. I don't use Twitter lol

lol, it would have been quite funny to get Gordon Brown/Barrack Obama to follow you on twitter! :p

I too don't use Twitter, as i find no use with it apart from inflating your ego!

and your e-penis dont forget girls love a big e-penis.... dont they? :embarrassed:

Lol, I don't use Twitter. Nice find though hells. Great work

Nice find i did notice this yesterday and it's been sorted now anyway