[twitter-dev] The most shameful bug a site can have! Fix it quickly before it causes havoc dear Twitter
Hi, TechCrunch Europe reported the bug. I hope you fix it asap. It seems to work! I'm extremely sorry, did not mean to exploit it, was just trying to ascertain if it was true. Once you are done fixing the bug, you will have the arduous task of reversing all the follows that took place by exploiting this bug. If you have an easy way to do that, well and fine. One thing I noticed, when you make someone follow you using the exploited bug, the new follower notification email is never sent. This might be of some help to you in identifying all those who exploited the bug and reverse it.
Re: [twitter-dev] The most shameful bug a site can have! Fix it quickly before it causes havoc dear Twitter
We're aware and currently working on a fix. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:37 AM, nischalshetty nischalshett...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, TechCrunch Europe reported the bug. I hope you fix it asap. It seems to work! I'm extremely sorry, did not mean to exploit it, was just trying to ascertain if it was true. Once you are done fixing the bug, you will have the arduous task of reversing all the follows that took place by exploiting this bug. If you have an easy way to do that, well and fine. One thing I noticed, when you make someone follow you using the exploited bug, the new follower notification email is never sent. This might be of some help to you in identifying all those who exploited the bug and reverse it.
Re: [twitter-dev] The most shameful bug a site can have! Fix it quickly before it causes havoc dear Twitter
So weird. I KNEW something was up. I thought it was just stale memcache data and it would expire. I've been jacking around this script all week and what I was getting back didn't make sense: http://gist.github.com/396262 So confused because things weren't adding up. I even sent out tweets asking if someone else was actually following me or not (eg: http://twitter.com/zbowling/status/13698520461 and http://twitter.com/zbowling/status/13653464851 ) http://gist.github.com/396262 Zac Bowling @zbowling On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: We're aware and currently working on a fix. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:37 AM, nischalshetty nischalshett...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, TechCrunch Europe reported the bug. I hope you fix it asap. It seems to work! I'm extremely sorry, did not mean to exploit it, was just trying to ascertain if it was true. Once you are done fixing the bug, you will have the arduous task of reversing all the follows that took place by exploiting this bug. If you have an easy way to do that, well and fine. One thing I noticed, when you make someone follow you using the exploited bug, the new follower notification email is never sent. This might be of some help to you in identifying all those who exploited the bug and reverse it.
