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Huge Twitter Bug Exposes Celebs

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Allows users to "force" someone to follow them.

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Does Oprah follow you on Twitter? If not, you can make her: Gizmodo has exposed a huge hole in Twitter's service that allows users to force other users to follow them. By simplying tweeting "accept [name of celebrity's account]" Twitter will add that celebrity to your follower's list. Twitter, meanwhile, has confirmed the hole and is already on the case: Most accounts are now showing zero followers and zero followed.

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