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Twitter Status update today wrote a new blog entry saying stating that there has been a bug injected into their system in other words a virus, trojan, spam.
Altough others are saying twitter resets follow list to zero because of auto follow bug. But what really happen is Gizmodo found the way to automatically add anyone as your friend, so for example if i want to have Ashton Kutcher as my friend i can do that simply by typing “accept [username]” into the Twitter Web interface, you could turn anyone into your Twitter follower.
Right after that has been exposed users all around began adding celebrity twitter accounts into their followers as friends. People like late night show host Conan O’Brien has stated he will only follow one person, immediately began following hundreds of profiles.
So when twitter coughs up with the problem they decided to reset everyone’s follow lists to zero to prevent spammy followers and confirmed that it was working on a fix.
Here is what Twitter;s status blog says:
We identified and resolved a bug that permitted a user to “force” other users to follow them. We’re now working to rollback all abuse of the bug that took place. Follower/following numbers are currently at 0; we’re aware and this too should shortly be resolved. Update (10:18 AM PST): Of note: protected updates did not become public as a result of this bug.
Many stressed out users are booming twitter and at rage when it become clear to them that all of their hard work adding those followers are gone, all twitter marketers and twitter software product developers as well all so called Money Making with Twitter are under a big risk. If twitter will not resolve this issue and all followers as well followed list will be lost that only can mean one thing.
Marketers will loose their daily bread and butter wich is traffic to their crapy websites
Developers will have their projects at risk because if there are no twitter who needs their programs to market on twitter.
And last but not least every single member that are part of Twitter affiliate networks will crawl back to facebook Advertising or marketing:)
I would not be surprised if this whole chaos was done by facebook affiliate network gurus to attract large amount of new marketers sign ups.
Anyway time will tell what is going to happen with our highly followed accounts and im sure that are many hoping for the best at the mean while many of you learned a lesson that is you loose all when you put all of your marketing eggs in one basket. This loss of followers may cost for twitter dearly.


Mon, May 10, 2010
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