{"id":17338,"date":"2010-05-10T20:26:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T20:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/the-real-story-behind-twitters-ridiculous-follow-bug-twitter\/"},"modified":"2010-05-10T20:26:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T20:26:24","slug":"the-real-story-behind-twitters-ridiculous-follow-bug-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/the-real-story-behind-twitters-ridiculous-follow-bug-twitter.php","title":{"rendered":"The Real Story Behind Twitter&#8217;s Ridiculous Follow Bug [Twitter]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--  div style=\"background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;\"&gt;<a title=\"Click here to read The Real Story Behind Twitter's Ridiculous Follow Bug\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/twitter\/\"><span>#<\/span><span>twitter<\/span><\/a>&lt;\/div --><div><a title=\"Click here to read The Real Story Behind Twitter's Ridiculous Follow Bug\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5535536\/the-real-story-behind-twitters-ridiculous-follow-bug\"><br>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" height=\"120\" width=\"160\" alt=\"Click here to read The Real Story Behind Twitter's Ridiculous Follow Bug\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/57e5e_160x120_gizmodo-kills-the-twitter-show.jpg\"><br>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/div><\/div><p>\t\t\t\tFor a while today, a <a title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #twitterbug\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/twitterbug\/\">Twitter bug<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\">let anyone force <em>anyone<\/em> to follow their accounts<\/a>. It was a hilariously simple trick, and equally bizarre. Even better? This bug was discovered by <em>accident<\/em>, by a Turkish Twitter user. Here's what happened.\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5535536\/the-real-story-behind-twitters-ridiculous-follow-bug\" title=\"Click here to read more about The Real Story Behind Twitter's Ridiculous Follow Bug [Twitter]\">More&nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=df9a5c74ddbd9db4b4a83a3f4b33813f&amp;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e3a40_img.phdo?s=df9a5c74ddbd9db4b4a83a3f4b33813f&amp;p=1\"><\/a><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e3a40_seg?add=25366&amp;t=2\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=HV1RzC7pHX4:0pwlWH-hwjU:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e3a40_full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=HV1RzC7pHX4:0pwlWH-hwjU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e3a40_full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=HV1RzC7pHX4:0pwlWH-hwjU:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e3a40_full?i=HV1RzC7pHX4:0pwlWH-hwjU:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=HV1RzC7pHX4:0pwlWH-hwjU:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e3a40_full?i=HV1RzC7pHX4:0pwlWH-hwjU:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e3a40_HV1RzC7pHX4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while today, a Twitter bug let anyone force anyone to follow their accounts. It was a hilariously simple trick, and equally bizarre. Even better? This bug was discovered by accident, by a Turkish Twitter user. Here's what happened. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/the-real-story-behind-twitters-ridiculous-follow-bug-twitter.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurist"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}