Fake Followers

May 10th, 2010

Oops! Can someone turn on the Minka Aire fan, please?

A Twitter glitch has allowed users to game the popularity contest by making it appear that celebrities had subscribed to read their mini-blog postings known as tweets.

The flaw, which Twitter said Monday it has fixed, allowed users to add anyone else as a follower of their tweets. Normally, the other person has to initiate such “following.”

It’s unclear how long the flaw existed and how many people took advantage of it. Twitter Inc. says it’s looking at the issue.

Twitter has an immediate remedy. Click “unfollow” to remove the hijacked follow. Hmm.

Anyone who took advantage of this “glitch” is a tweetjacker, not fake.

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