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Ask HN: Did you exploit the twitter follow bug?

4 points by sushi ↗ HN
I tried it for a bit and since it was working made some of the celebs like @aplusk & @oprah follow me. Did you do something like that as well?

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jasonlbaptiste
better yet, who did it and then messaged one of the people they made follow them. if i had known earlier i sincerely would have made bill gates follow me and just sent a dm with a quick+ sincere "thank you".
jacquesm
How does one tell a quick + sincere "thank you" from a slow and insincere "thank you"?
butofcourse
Simply compare the speed and sincerity.
jacquesm
Kinda hard in a tweet...

Reminds me of a silly joke:

Mother writing to her son: Dear John, I know you don't read very fast so I'll write this slowly.

brk
It appears that Taylor Swift and Mariah Carey have un-followed me. The others that I forced into my followers list are still there though. Kinda disappointed about Taylor, I really thought that she and I would get a lot of value from each-others tweets.
sushi
It seems Taylor has un-followed me as well. I was also thinking that she could get some value from my cooking tweets.
noodle
i used it, yes, but only to test it out. i was too curious not to.