Twitter Bug allows me to increase my followers for some hours

[karyboy]

http://blog.karneshmehra.com/twitter-bug-allows-me-to-increase-my-followers-for-some-hours/

[Gurrewe]

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. :(

[karyboy → Gurrewe]

There is a follow limit for each day , thats why you get this message

[bwoodward → karyboy]

is the limit around 700?

[yaph → bwoodward]

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...

[karyboy → bwoodward]

I dont know the exact number , but it must be around this figure

[bwoodward → karyboy]

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!

[Daviey]

Not that I agree that this is a good thing to do.... but why this way, and not via the API?

[higherpurpose]

I assume Twitter can easily revert the followers to the original amount on this one.

[shalalala]

Seems to be fixed now.

[creativityhurts → shalalala]

Still works but most likely it will be an easy fix for Twitter to revert it.

[karyboy → shalalala]

I can still increase the followers count ...

[mide765 → karyboy]

Me too.

[benjy1 → mide765]

Works for me, such a funny bug issue.

[Aaronn → shalalala]

Not fixed

[SymbianSyMoh]

Awesome and Yes, it's so easy to be fixed