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Twitter Bug allows me to increase my followers for some hours (blog.karneshmehra.com)
12 points by karyboy 4533 days ago
5 comments
Gurrewe 4533 days ago
I was able to increase my followers-count with a few hundred. Then "You are unable to follow more people at this time. Learn more here" happened. :(
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karyboy 4533 days ago
There is a follow limit for each day , thats why you get this message
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stevewillows 4533 days ago
is the limit around 700?
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yaph 4533 days ago
The technical follow limit is 1000, but Twitter states "this is a technical account limit only, and there are additional rules prohibiting aggressive following behavior".

see https://support.twitter.com/articles/15364-twitter-limits-ap...

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karyboy 4533 days ago
I dont know the exact number , but it must be around this figure
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stevewillows 4533 days ago
I did it from the main view of the feed where it also shows suggested people. It also ran the script on an ex-girlfriend and a good friend of mine.

Nice catch!

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Daviey 4533 days ago
Not that I agree that this is a good thing to do.... but why this way, and not via the API?
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higherpurpose 4533 days ago
I assume Twitter can easily revert the followers to the original amount on this one.
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shalalala 4533 days ago
Seems to be fixed now.
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creativityhurts 4533 days ago
Still works but most likely it will be an easy fix for Twitter to revert it.
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karyboy 4533 days ago
I can still increase the followers count ...
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mide765 4533 days ago
Me too.
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benjy1 4533 days ago
Works for me, such a funny bug issue.
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Aaronn 4532 days ago
Not fixed
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SymbianSyMoh 4530 days ago
Awesome and Yes, it's so easy to be fixed
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