Twitter has stomped out a bug that for a brief period allowed users to force other users to follow them on the microblogging site. In eliminating the glitch, however, Twitter emptied out some users’ list of followers entirely. “Like other social networks, Twitter was originally designed to serve a pretty small community, and when it grew so big, funny things were bound to happen,” Yankee Group analyst Carl Howe told TechNewsWorld. Twitter’s real-time nature exacerbates the problem.
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Twitter's Forced-Follow Flaw Fix Purges Users' Fan Files
Posted by: Richard Adhikari May 11, 2010 11:59 AMTwitter has stomped out a bug that for a brief period allowed users to force other users to follow them on the microblogging site. In eliminating the glitch, however, Twitter emptied out some users’ list of followers entirely. “Like other social networks, Twitter was originally designed to serve a pretty small community, and when it grew so big, funny things were bound to happen,” Yankee Group analyst Carl Howe told TechNewsWorld. Twitter’s real-time nature exacerbates the problem.