<story><title>Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter</title><url>http://blog.gcg.me/post/587047998</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HowardRoark</author><text>I have written a script to follow 1000 users on my niche every day. I find that around 15% of users follow me back. In the next couple of days, I remove the rest 85%. I have been doing this for a few months now and I have a few thousand followers on a few twitter accounts. 
I have set up websites for each of those niches and get decent amount of traffic though twitter. 
Been banned the first few times, but I have found my ways around it (mostly).</text></item><item><author>rmorrison</author><text>Or, is there anybody whose career took off due to this bug? For example, a musician who got signed primarily because all of the top 50 music producers were following him on twitter.</text></item><item><author>savrajsingh</author><text>I would guess this exploit has always been possible until today? What&apos;s interesting is that someone has probably been wielding this secret power well before it got outed here on hacker news.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drp</author><text>Please stop doing that. It&apos;s bad for the world.</text></comment>
<story><title>Twitter bug: Make anyone follow you on Twitter</title><url>http://blog.gcg.me/post/587047998</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HowardRoark</author><text>I have written a script to follow 1000 users on my niche every day. I find that around 15% of users follow me back. In the next couple of days, I remove the rest 85%. I have been doing this for a few months now and I have a few thousand followers on a few twitter accounts. 
I have set up websites for each of those niches and get decent amount of traffic though twitter. 
Been banned the first few times, but I have found my ways around it (mostly).</text></item><item><author>rmorrison</author><text>Or, is there anybody whose career took off due to this bug? For example, a musician who got signed primarily because all of the top 50 music producers were following him on twitter.</text></item><item><author>savrajsingh</author><text>I would guess this exploit has always been possible until today? What&apos;s interesting is that someone has probably been wielding this secret power well before it got outed here on hacker news.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jarek</author><text>Incidentally, the 15% that follow you back are the ones you are least likely to engage in any meaningful manner beyond &quot;click this link plz.&quot;</text></comment>